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current events

NOUN
current affairs
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If you pride yourself on your knowledge of current events, see if you can beat a Slate senior editor’s score in today’s news quiz!

From Slate Aug. 28, 2026

Maines countered that she was responding to current events, but she apologized to the fans who felt hurt — and then she recanted.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

"The hippocampus is important for our ability to distinguish between similar but different memories and separate the emotional connotation of past memories and current events," Dupont says.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

So Capotescu, 42, started what he called “listening tables,” moderated sit-downs where students could talk about current events without it turning into a shouting match.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

I taught social doctrine to Muslims, and current events, and politics.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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