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# recent

«recent» in Mova's school dictionary: **Happening or made not long ago: a recent photo, recent rain** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (recent, more recent, most recent)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Happening or made not long ago: a recent photo, recent rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#m1)

2) «The most recent» means the newest or latest one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, history and news: «recent studies show…», «recent storms». In maths data problems «the most recent score» is the last one in the list. In everyday life: «a recent trip», «in recent weeks». Phrases: «in recent years/weeks», «recent events», «most recent», «until recent times».

### examples

- This is a recent photo of my dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#x1)
- Recent rain has made the river high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#x2)
- Her most recent score was 92. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#x3)
- In recent weeks, the days have got colder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#x4)
- Recent studies show children need more sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#x5)
- The town has grown in recent times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#x6)
- Is this a recent drawing? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#x7)
- Our most recent trip was to the coast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#x8)
- The war in 1490 was spoken of as quite recent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/#x9)

### note

Adjective; adverb: recently. Opposite: old, ancient, past long ago. «Recent» is relative — for rocks, «recent» can mean thousands of years!

### In the corpora

- [The vaquita, a porpoise in Mexico, is the rarest sea mammal; around ten were reported in recent surveys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/12/)
- [Recent elections have been hard-fought, and on the hardest moments Americans still use very different words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/5/)
- [Researchers who count conflicts reported that the number of wars in the world has risen in recent years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/28-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others/18/)
- [An active volcano has erupted in recent times and may erupt again; an extinct volcano is not expected to erupt ever again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/62-volcanoes-and-earthquakes/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.