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current events

NOUN
current affairs
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At Forum AI, we built an independent system to evaluate how the leading AI models handle politically sensitive topics and current events, one of the hardest things for them to get right.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

"My mother constantly sends me articles about Russia, about current events, about what is happening here, so that I stay informed," says Takemi.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Knowledge of current events, geography, and simple concepts like the law of supply and demand have been crowded out by willed ignorance and motivated reasoning.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Matejka is careful to differentiate between current events and the oil-price shock of 2022 because that exacerbated an upward trend in inflation that was already triggered by the global pandemic.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

One of the current events we studied in social studies class was the unusual number of small planes that had gone down in sudden squalls in the Atlantic that year.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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