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Examples of present-day in a Sentence
present-day technology has rendered yesterday's marvels obsolete
the present-day administration in Washington
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The move was made in part for present-day value, and in part to duck a pricey luxury tax bill.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
Santander, 30, lost significant present-day value with the Blue Jays through his deferrals, which Major League Baseball factors in when calculating a team’s luxury-tax payroll.
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Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 1 Feb. 2025
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, giving the U.S. Army a mandate to relocate all Native Americans living east of the Mississippi to the Creek reservation in present-day Oklahoma.
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Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
But two important episodes in the book feature his roots-slash-research trips – in 2019 and 2021 — that included stops at Auschwitz, Dachau, Jewish cemeteries and his grandparents’ hometowns in present-day Poland and Germany.
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Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
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Word History
First Known Use
1887, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near present-day
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“Present-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/present-day. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
present-day
adjective
pres·ent-day
ˈprez-ᵊnt-ˈdā
: being or happening now
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