current events

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In a portent of current events, he thought foreign trade could be used for domestic purposes.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Camus used the notebooks more as a place to organize his thoughts than as a chronicle of current events, but they do feature some real-time accounts of history.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

This threat is acute enough that observers are warning that the ability to anonymously make such large bets on current events could motivate the people involved to alter outcomes for their own financial benefit.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Matejka is careful to differentiate between current events and the oil-price shock of 2022 because that exacerbated an upward trend in inflation that was already triggered by the global pandemic.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

Every morning after she finished her exercises, she read the paper cover to cover so that she would be up on her current events.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray