the present

Example Sentences

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Those are the bits that have carried the “Scary Movie” legacy into the present.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

As Sumner proclaimed, “in the holds of those two ships were concealed the germs of the present direful war.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 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

One month of data can’t definitively establish a trend, or answer whether the present cohort of first-time buyers are particularly wealthy, Yun notes.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

I thought there were excellent materials in him; though for the present they hung together somewhat spoiled and tangled.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë