current events
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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
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
Every Tuesday, Mr. Ryan’s history students were supposed to bring a topic for a current events discussion.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
