Living and Recent

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Living adjective - Being in effective operation.

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

Nearby Words: live, lived, livable

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

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

Nearby Words: recently, recency

Characters are also occasionally revealed to be unable to read English (or whatever is the dominant language where they are living) due to being recent immigrants.

Source: Never Learned to Read
Recent covers have included a TARDIS snowglobe and an exclusive Christmas Day living room scene with Wallace & Gromit.

Source: Useful Notes / A Very British Christmas
But after Ryou's grandmother's recent death, she has been living and cooking on her own, and compares herself unfavourably to grandmother's cooking.

Source: Manga / Gourmet Girl Graffiti

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Recent and Living. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/living/recent

Living & Recent. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/living/recent>.

Recent or Living. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/living/recent.

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