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How to spell recent

What it means: Of the immediate past.

In a sentence: I read a recent book about dinosaurs. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as recant or recient.

Same family: recently, recency, modern, current. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Recent” comes from Latin *recens*, meaning "fresh" or "new". In geology and archaeology, it was adopted as a technical time label for the very latest slice of Earth’s history.

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