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current events

NOUN
current affairs
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Grigoryan said that Voskanyan lived in Glendale with his mother and brother and was an intelligent man who loved reading books and was well versed on politics, sports and current events.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

I was sitting in seventh grade social studies, where we were encouraged to discuss current events.

From Slate Sep. 9, 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

There were kids from Uruguay and Korea who had just learned English but were doing extra credit for the current events stuff in Intro to Wall Street, reading Barron’s and Crain’s Business Daily.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini




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