as in lately
not long ago I recently purchased a car have you seen her recently?

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Recent Examples of recently City have won it on seven occasions, including most recently in 2023. Ben Burrows, New York Times, 3 May 2025 Most recently, Pitt re-teamed with Clooney for AppleTV+'s Wolfs (2024) and is hyping his lead turn as a Formula One racer in Joseph Kosinski's F1. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 May 2025 Three of the five U.S. counties with the greatest proportion of women having children in their 40s are in Northern California, according to data recently released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and reported first by the San Francisco Chronicle. Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025 Most recently, markets have lost trillions of dollars in response to import tariffs, bounced back, then slipped again. Rachel Barber, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for recently
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Adverb
  • Results in China, which was been a drag lately , were not terrible, either.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 29 Apr. 2025
  • What brings you the most purpose and passion to your days lately?
    Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Despite Miami being near the top of the Eastern Conference, and having Messi and Luis Suarez leading the attack, the team has had trouble scoring of late.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Bondi signaled late last month that any criminal investigation into the matter was unlikely.
    Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • In a photo shared on April 11, the singer lays her head on a pillow, her newly dark hair tucked behind her ears.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Television reporters, newly arrived from Delhi, set up cameras on the picturesque shoreline of Dal Lake and dutifully repeated the government’s line.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Goldschmidt’s homer was just his third of the season, but his second in as many games.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 3 May 2025
  • And just to keep things interesting, Kingston wasn’t quite done adventuring.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025

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“Recently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recently. Accessed 8 May. 2025.

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