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Extant

Extant adjective - Existing or in progress right now.

Usage example: when people envisage the future, they often base their predictions on the assumption that extant trends will continue indefinitely

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Recent and extant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Recent" instead an adjective "Extant".

Recent

Recent adjective - Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time.

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Extant and recent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Extant" instead an adjective "Recent".

Nearby Words: recently, recency

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The fact that newborn pterosaurs were virtually identical to adults is a recent discovery which astonished scientists: none of the extant fliers shows powered flight soon after its birth.

Source: Useful Notes / Stock Dinosaurs (Non-Dinosaurs)
Snakes are the great exception among extant reptiles: they are a very recent thing, appeared only in the Late Cretaceous, just before the mass extinction.

Source: Useful Notes / Prehistoric Life - Non-Dinosaurian Reptiles

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