Present
Both words in one sentence
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But there's a very real and present threat to everything everywhere that's also played completely straight.
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A partial example, in that the setting is the 'present', but not an example of Bad Present, since the entire point is that the setting is a worse alternate to the 'real' history.
Source: Bad Future - There's the Star Trek: Voyager episode which throws the crew back in time to 1995 which essentially operates as a real world episode having them land in the then-present.
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Real and Present. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/present/real
Present & Real. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/present/real>.
Real or Present. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/present/real.
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