Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Not long ago; recently.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Recently; of late; not long ago; not long before.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Not long ago; recently.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
Recently ; not long ago.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in the recent past
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have been ordering from Amazon-UK but the condition i have been receiving the books in lately is not great so will definitely try some of your suggestions ... thanks
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What's occupying my brain lately is that in less than 2 months G and I are moving to Paris.
Happy Canada Day Michele 2005
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What's occupying my brain lately is that in less than 2 months G and I are moving to Paris.
diversions..or How to boil an egg.. Michele 2005
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There have been several ITV game shows with the word ‘Celebrity’ in the title lately, and Celebrity Love Island is nothing if not the most recent.
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Colonel Oliver Boyce -- he has taken the title lately -- when I knew him he was something in the service of the Duke of Marlborough.
The Highwayman 1919
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My major fashion dilemma lately is letting go of clothes that don't fit me but are in like-new condition and given to me for free -- mostly by my mother.
Clothing Organization part 2: Back to the Drawing Board regina doman 2007
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Fair - holt's Dictionary of Terms in Art (London, 1854) char - acterizes Motif as “a term lately introduced into the vocabulary of Art,” whereas it is altogether omitted from James Elmes's earlier Dictionary of the Fine Arts
MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968
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Even news about Lindsay Lohan's perpetual rehab was more entertaining and useful than any article you've written about Palin lately!
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Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.
Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012
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Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.
Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012
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