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Popular

Popular adjective - Enjoying widespread favor or approval.
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Recent and popular are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Recent" instead an adjective "Popular".
Nearby Words: popularity, popularize, popularise, popularly, popularization

Recent

Recent adjective - Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time.
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Popular and recent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Popular" instead an adjective "Recent".
Nearby Words: recently, recency

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  • Videogame / Salt and Sanctuary Crystal Dragon Jesus: The Three are the most recent and popular of the three starting Creeds.
    Source: Videogame / Salt and Sanctuary
  • Armageddon stands as one of the more popular "hero dies to save the world" examples in recent years (if you consider 1998 recent, anyway).
    Source: Bittersweet Ending / Live-Action Films
  • Hilarious In Hindsight / Film The only things more popular on the nation's screens are the Good Ol' Movies (extensively discussed here in recent weeks) and films of demonic possession.
    Source: Hilarious In Hindsight / Film
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