How to Use present-day in a Sentence

present-day

adjective
  • For the study, researchers sequenced the DNA of 13 present-day members of the tribe.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
  • But the Hawks’ present-day problems ripped them right back into the here and now.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
  • On the other hand, present-day Tai has her eyes only on the prize.
    Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
  • One grave was of a woman buried with a glass bead from Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq.
    Reuters, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • Within one of the graves, the team found a woman buried with a glass bead from present-day Iraq (Mesopotamia).
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • The book begins in present-day Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
    Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
  • How does present-day Kartel compare to the man that went away 13 years ago?
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In a present-day concert, how might Trump fare as a leader?
    Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • But there has to be a present-day urgency compelling the return to the past.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Saxon and Lochlan In terms of present-day action, the brothers don’t do a whole lot in this episode.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The move was made in part for present-day value, and in part to duck a pricey luxury tax bill.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
  • This present-day Deer Lady smiles all the time, even if much of her pleasure comes from killing.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The eight sites making up the earthworks are spread across 90 miles of what is present-day southern Ohio.
    Julie Carr Smyth, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • And then present-day scenes can undermine drama in the past.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Yet in present-day Ghana, surfing is largely the domain of tourists.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The action mainly takes place in Greece, starting in the 1980s, but concludes in present-day Berlin.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The researchers then compared that data with the genomes of 2,000 present-day humans.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 31 July 2024
  • The study also showed that present-day isolation rates vary by age.
    Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
  • And in a present-day collab, Turlington had her daughter, Grace Burns, with her on the runway.
    Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Is the duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) huddling in a giant bomb crater?
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In Act 1: Velvet and Vice, fans are greeted by present-day Gaga wearing a black bob.
    Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 12 Apr. 2025
  • In some cases, this analysis spells doom for a present-day law.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
  • One day, about 1,100 years ago, a scribe in present-day Israel or Syria sat down to begin work on a book.
    Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Our present-day status with AI tends to suggest that the one-big-brain theory is a bust.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Artists of decades and centuries past to be held to present-day comportment standards?
    Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • Megalodon has a lot in common with its present-day relative, the great white shark.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans The Nobel Prize.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Then, join host Coy Wire on his journey to learn about rare creatures from ancient Egypt to present-day Hawaii.
    CNN, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Along with that present-day footage, the documentary plays footage from a Rocky V premiere.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
  • That connection between the background and present-day success becomes the driver in each of these artists’ stories.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 19 May 2025

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