recently
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- adverb
- /ˈriːsəntli/
- You may have heard from my... friends in the press, that I recently got married.
- more recently
- most recently
- recently published
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Watch on YouTubeThings have been pretty rough recently with my mental health.
- Things have been pretty rough recently with my mental health.
- I know you had him on the show recently, so yeah.
- And she then became a Christian recently in the last few months.
- I guess I've recently met a little person.
- And then most recently started back last summer.
- I met a former Marine recently named Zach.
- And as as John Wick recently said, yeah, I'm back.
- So yeah, recently we found each other, met up.
- And she died recently, about eight or nine months ago.
- And recently, we had a major breakthrough.
- And I only said it recently to someone.
- I have taken up recently the practice of peeing, sitting down.
- One, I recently lost my brother, God rest his soul.
Examples
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She mentioned that she recently started a new job at the hospital.
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And well, you just recently wrote a book on it, right?
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I know you had him on the show recently, so yeah.
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And she then became a Christian recently in the last few months.
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And she died recently, about eight or nine months ago.
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So for me, I had recently been single.
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Things have been pretty rough recently with my mental health.
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But it's okay 'cause I recently had a breakthrough.
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Both my parents were recently struck by serious illnesses.
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I have a stepson who recently acquired a dog.
Synonyms
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A short time before now
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In the period just before now
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A few days ago
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Very recently, only a short time ago
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Happening in the recent past, in the last few weeks or months
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Recently, in the past few weeks or months
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During the time people can still remember
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In the recent past
Antonyms
How Recent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Recently comes from the Latin word recens, meaning 'fresh' or 'new', and is made from recent and the ending -ly. So, recently means something happened 'not long ago'.