How to Use present-day in a Sentence

present-day

adjective
Definition of present-daynext
Synonyms for present-daynext
  • But the Hawks’ present-day problems ripped them right back into the here and now.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
  • On the other hand, present-day Tai has her eyes only on the prize.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
  • One grave was of a woman buried with a glass bead from Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq.
    — Reuters, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • Within one of the graves, the team found a woman buried with a glass bead from present-day Iraq (Mesopotamia).
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • The book begins in present-day Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
    — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
  • How does present-day Kartel compare to the man that went away 13 years ago?
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2025
  • But there has to be a present-day urgency compelling the return to the past.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • This present-day Deer Lady smiles all the time, even if much of her pleasure comes from killing.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The eight sites making up the earthworks are spread across 90 miles of what is present-day southern Ohio.
    — Julie Carr Smyth, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • And then present-day scenes can undermine drama in the past.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Yet in present-day Ghana, surfing is largely the domain of tourists.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The action mainly takes place in Greece, starting in the 1980s, but concludes in present-day Berlin.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The researchers then compared that data with the genomes of 2,000 present-day humans.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 31 July 2024
  • And in a present-day collab, Turlington had her daughter, Grace Burns, with her on the runway.
    — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Is the duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) huddling in a giant bomb crater?
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In some cases, this analysis spells doom for a present-day law.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
  • One day, about 1,100 years ago, a scribe in present-day Israel or Syria sat down to begin work on a book.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Artists of decades and centuries past to be held to present-day comportment standards?
    — Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • Megalodon has a lot in common with its present-day relative, the great white shark.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans The Nobel Prize.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Then, join host Coy Wire on his journey to learn about rare creatures from ancient Egypt to present-day Hawaii.
    — CNN, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Along with that present-day footage, the documentary plays footage from a Rocky V premiere.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The ancient lake stood more than 25 feet higher than where present-day Lakes Michigan and Huron sit today.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
  • This group lived on the central coast of present-day Peru before the Inca Empire came to power.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This came as a surprise not only because of where those planes were — a swath of my present-day neighborhood — but when.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The oral histories of many present-day tribes link their ancestors to earthen mounds.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 June 2023
  • Kaos puts Greek and Roman mythology in a present-day setting.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
  • These early seals had legs for walking instead of flippers, a long tail, and were much longer, and looked a bit like present-day otters.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
  • What does ring true until the final frame of the show and into our present-day lives is that civilization and the civilized rarely occupy the same space.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Around 1902, the village of Pembroke sprouted near present-day Carver Ranches, and many of the early settlers were from north Florida.
    — Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025

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