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Concordes could travel at Mach 2 or twice the speed of sound, something that the present-day fighter jets can easily do.
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Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
Kurosawa Kiyoshi has spent a career trapping his characters in the present tense — in the buzzing infrastructure of contemporary Tokyo, in the ambient dread of the networked age, in the particular horror of ordinary life curdling into something much worse.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 May 2026
Organizing the league had brought my sporting life back into the present tense after a two-decade hiatus.
—Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
Our need to meditate upon Lincoln as a savior and a saint—especially in times as rotten as the present—gives us a motivation, perhaps subconscious, to vilify Mary.
—Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
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Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
Kurosawa Kiyoshi has spent a career trapping his characters in the present tense — in the buzzing infrastructure of contemporary Tokyo, in the ambient dread of the networked age, in the particular horror of ordinary life curdling into something much worse.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 May 2026
Organizing the league had brought my sporting life back into the present tense after a two-decade hiatus.
—Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
Our need to meditate upon Lincoln as a savior and a saint—especially in times as rotten as the present—gives us a motivation, perhaps subconscious, to vilify Mary.
—Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for the present
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“The present.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20present. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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