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LATEST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The most recent news or development
Example:
have you heard the latest?
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("latest" is a kind of...):
intelligence; news; tidings; word (information about recent and important events)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date
Example:
the very latest scientific discoveries
Synonyms:
latest; up-to-the-minute
Classified under:
Similar:
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In the current fashion or style
Synonyms:
a la mode; in style; in vogue; latest; modish
Classified under:
Similar:
fashionable; stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)
Context examples:
The Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center conducts basic, clinical, and cancer prevention research, while providing the latest treatments to patients, while training the next generation of medical researchers.
(Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
What’s the latest from London?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China have sent spacecraft to the near side of the moon, but the latest Chinese landing is the first on the far side.
(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)
The latest results from Curiosity indicate that these wetter scenarios were correct for the lower portions of Mount Sharp.
(NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Confirms Ancient Lakes on Mars, NASA)
This is the latest finding that shows remarkable similarities between Earth and Titan, the only other world we know of in our solar system that has stable liquid on its surface.
(Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth, NASA)
Half of mental health disorders arise before the age of 14, but most cases are not detected or treated until much later, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization.
(Half of mental health disorders arise in adolescence, SciDev.Net)
These latest results confirm earlier studies that the properties of dark energy have not changed over billions of years.
("Russian Doll" Galaxy Clusters Reveal Information About Dark Energy, NASA)
In the Licht group's latest study, the molten air battery operating temperature has been lowered to 600 degrees Celsius or less.
(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)
Robert Martin and Harriet Smith, the latest couple engaged of the three, were the first to be married.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He has a thousand, but the latest is something about Weissmann and Evolution.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
