How to Use at the present time in a Sentence

at the present time

phrase
  • This is a live promotion that is available at the present time.
    cleveland, 3 Sep. 2022
  • But at the present time, too little is known about the current outbreak.
    Dave Wessner, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • And at the present time, would-be tourists need to join some kind of group to get that visa (more on that later).
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • But there is no reason at the present time to want to watch the Giants next season.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Such an opinion, in this writer’s view, is ridiculous in view of the threat climate change poses at the present time.
    Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Limited numbers of thyrallis are available at area nurseries at the present time.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2021
  • The name of the third soldier has been withheld at the present time at the request of the family, said the Army.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • First, this is the most generous pre-registration bonus in the marketplace at the present time.
    cleveland, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The only democratic entity in Syria at the present time is the Kurds.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Building for the future means acknowledging that new needs will arise over time that are unanticipated at the present time.
    Greg Kihlstrom, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • There are at the present time about 350 men stationed at the destroyer base, which is under the command of Com.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Following a mental evaluation, Lori was judged unfit to be tried on the murder charges at the present time.
    Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Red, white and blue bluebonnet transplants are available for planting in full sun from several retail nurseries at the present time.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • What are your thoughts about the musical output of Iranian artists, not only at the present time, but over the last 10 years of so?
    Lily Moayeri, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
  • So, at the present time, it’s been drawing down on our own inventory as well as making certain weapons available through the foreign-military sales.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Emigration rates have increased since the war began, but Christians from that region are far from disappearing at the present time.
    Samuel Sweeney, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Unemployment, which at the peak of the crisis stood at about the same level as in Greece at the present time, fell to about seven percent by 2013.
    Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2015
  • Anti-Israel letter writers might want to direct their venom at the brutality that’s going on in Syria at the present time.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The Dodgers have six starters at the present time and that’s after right-hander Dustin May was traded to the Boston Red Sox last week.
    Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Greater danger is threatening at the present time from the National Socialists, popularly called the Nazis.
    Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
  • If your goal is to get at the truth, or at least our closest approximation of it at the present time, the way to do that is to be scrupulous and forthright about the strengths and weaknesses of every link in your chain of argument.
    Big Think, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Just hyperbole, but the NBA is more concerned remaining financially viable, at the present time, than who wins a ring in 2021.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Silva will retain the priestly faculties of the Diocese of Providence, but will not be receiving a new assignment at the present time, according to the announcement.
    Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Mets fans aren’t so happy with their $765 million right fielder, who at the present time has three more RBI (63) than Anthony Volpe.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Against that backdrop, US officials are increasingly concerned about whether Netanyahu is genuinely interested in reaching a hostage deal at the present time.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The architects several months ago presented a space needs analysis that considered the existing space, the space needed at the present time and future space need projections through 2050.
    Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Due to citrus greening disease and the citrus quarantine established throughout large areas of Southern California, there are a limited number of nurseries selling citrus trees at the present time.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024
  • After all, Russian propaganda today is all about spreading falsehoods and misrepresentations, so much so that lack of commitment to consistency is the only reliable feature of Moscow's communications at the present time.
    Anthony D. Kauders, CNN, 5 May 2022
  • Gregory Bovino with border czar Tom Homan and the subsequent reduction of ICE agents in Minneapolis are evidence that the president is amenable to finding a better solution at the present time.
    Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026

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