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current events

NOUN
current affairs
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The adults would engage in animated conversation, usually about current events, while we, the dozen or so kids, kept ourselves busy inventing games.

From Slate Sep. 11, 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

“Days of Unrest” is intended as Price’s response to current events, from an artist who has always spoken her mind and who has been political from the start.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2026

“We created an entire pop culture and current events timeline in the writers room,” says Kittrell, which is how they realized No Doubt’s album “Tragic Kingdom” had come out exactly when “Elle” begins.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

Every morning after she finished her exercises, she read the paper cover to cover so that she would be up on her current events.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray




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