recent

Adj.	1.	recent - being new in a time not long past; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees" new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"
	2.	recent - of the immediate past or just previous to the present time; "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal" late past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"
	3.	recent - near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of recent origin" modern - belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; "modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"

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