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PRESENT-DAY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Belonging to the present time
Example:
contemporary leaders
Synonyms:
contemporary; present-day
Classified under:
Similar:
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
Context examples:
Other researchers dispute the notion of a present-day reversal, which would likely affect our heavily electronic world in unusual ways.
(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)
The finding lends support to the idea that the evolution of present-day animals in the Arctic traces back to ancestors that adapted to life in cold regions in the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau.
("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)
Mice with heart failure that were treated for six weeks with the molecule showed not only that the disease had been stabilized—as usual with present-day medications—but also the improvement in condition.
(Molecule created in Brazil helps fight heart failure, Agência Brasil)
The research also shows the existence of ancient HBV genotypes in locations incompatible with their present-day distribution, contradicting previously-suggested geographical origins of the virus.
(Oldest genetic evidence of Hepatitis B virus found in ancient DNA from 4,500 year-old skeletons, University of Cambridge)
A new study by University of Wyoming researchers suggests scientists can go back to the past to study present-day solidified magma chambers where the erosion has removed overlying rock, exposing granite underpinnings.
(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)
During their primordial migration out of Africa, ancestors of present-day humans are thought to have interbred with Neanderthals, whose brain characteristics can be inferred from their fossilized skulls.
(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)
They examined whether patterns of community structure were best explained by recent or prehistoric human activity and by present-day or paleoclimate changes — in temperature from 22,000 years ago to the present, and in rainfall from 6,000 years ago to the present.
(Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future, National Science Foundation)
The present-day thinning and retreat of Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest and fastest shrinking glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, may have already been underway as early as the 1940s, according to findings from an international research team led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)
Given 2004 EW95’s present-day abode in the icy outer reaches of the Solar System, this implies that it has been flung out into its present orbit by a migratory planet in the early days of the Solar System.
(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)
In seeking to understand factors that affect global biodiversity patterns, scientists have focused much of their research on present-day climate, such as patterns of temperature or rainfall, or recent human impacts, such as urbanization and the destruction of wild lands.
(Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future, National Science Foundation)
