UP-TO-DATENESS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

up-to-dateness

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as in currentness

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Unlike Chakrabarti, Wiener has also been a part of San Francisco’s insular community for decades, and has his own base of support — though he is considered a moderate to Chakrabarti’s progressiveness.

— Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Its reputation is one of progressiveness and social awareness.

— Christian Orozco, NBC news, 12 Sep. 2025

Definition of progressiveness

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Although there is a lot of innovation in this arena, every device has its pros and cons and context for use matters.

— Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
But Beijing is not just balancing innovation and safety, but also global competition – and may not want to slow down.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 31 July 2026

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Watch vessel-level AIS tracking data for the Gibraltar corridor itself, the kind of transit-time and vessel-count monitoring the IMF's PortWatch initiative already runs, for any early divergence from the roughly 300-vessels-per-day baseline.

— Frank Ahrens, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
But the dramatic divergence of the new measurement from the detector’s own past results, along with the collaboration’s claim of high precision, made the situation hard to ignore.

— Matt von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 29 July 2026

Definition of divergence

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up-to-dateness

up to snuff

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