Older and Recent

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Older adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.

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

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

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

Nearby Words: recently, recency

Makes sense that while Howard was the primary dude in distress in a lot of episodes (both older and recent episodes), Randy is slowly becoming this in the more recent episodes since the show itself is getting darker and edgier.

Source: Western Animation / Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
Older Is Better: Those old mechs who cannot be built anymore are treasured over weaker, more recent models.

Source: Tabletop Game / BattleTech
This was Sharon, who was originally her much-younger sister but has become a niece with more recent retcons and Comic-Book Time forcing Peggy to be older and older.

Source: Replacement Goldfish

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