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yet

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conjunction

as in but
if it were not for the fact that it feels like summer, yet according to the calendar we're still in early spring

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Recent Examples of yet
Adverb
This data is only an estimate as OpenAI has yet to reveal its own user numbers. James Peckham, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025 Ten years on, Activity Rings remains one of the best examples yet of fitness gamification. Adrienne So, Wired News, 24 Apr. 2025 He has not yet been arraigned on the federal charges. Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025 Read More: How Trump’s Tariffs Could Lead to a Global Recession The turmoil isn’t over yet, either. Time, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for yet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yet
Adverb
  • For large portion of this year, Pope Francis resided at Rome's Gemelli University Hospital due to a litany of health issues, including bilateral pneumonia, before eventually succumbing to a stroke and irreversible heart failure.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In the Vice President’s telling, love emanates in concentric circles, beginning with those closest to us and eventually to the rest of the world.
    Randall Balmer, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Is this going to be a pope then that engages politically differently?
    Nia Dumas, NPR, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Just five years ago, an editor in Los Angeles might cut footage, export a heavy file to a hard drive, then ship it overnight to a director in New York.
    Allison Begalman, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The stock is still down almost 30% so far this year, however.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Both groups, however, have worked together on previous film and TV tax credit proposals.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Conjunction
  • But scientists and doctors say things aren’t that simple — and a belief that exposing children to marijuana, either directly or indirectly, is harmless isn’t supported by the facts.
    Daniel M. Jimenez, The Cannifornian, 22 June 2017
  • But with a full and volatile season behind them, the two have grown closer, prompting check-ins from Bradford last month, seeking tidbits from his coach who watched OTA practices on a tablet from his Kentucky retreat.
    Chad Graff, Twin Cities, 15 June 2017
Adverb
  • Twenty years in the making, the 2005 REAL ID Act is finally going into effect on May 7.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Panthers finally strike After getting several good looks early in the second period, Florida finally struck.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • These weren’t reactionary opinions in the moment, either.
    Jeff Howe, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • There is no evidence for this either. 2010-approximately 2017 - Santos claims to work in asset management at Citigroup.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Michigan's auto industry has been hit hard by globalization, though, and Trump said his policies will help restore manufacturing in the state, pointing to tariffs on foreign automobiles.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • The bulk of those, though, will be made on the margins.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The output from there will someday feed the Texas plant, which is in development in Seadrift, Texas, on 149 acres adjacent to a 4,700-acre chemical plant operated for more than 60 years by Union Carbide and Dow Chemical.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The president dished on whether Kai would be able to beat him on the course someday.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Yet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yet. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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