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present

[prez-uhnt] / ˈprɛz ənt /








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California requires that a veterinarian to be present or nearby and on call.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

And they merely represent the value of those future liabilities discounted to the present — in other words, the money we’d need to set aside today to meet all those future obligations.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

When these warm by more than 0.5C from the baseline over an extended period, conditions for El Niño are present.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

You don’t arrive at a chapter and then find yourself needing to frantically page backwards to try to find the previous reference to a person or event, because it will already be present.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

If there were four agents mid-mission when the Academy lost power, then those agents had no way of making it back to the present.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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