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the present

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"Opera and ballet are under particular strain at the present time due to funding pressures and we are fighting to maintain full time jobs and pay."

From BBC

The present study sets a cornerstone in that.

More to the present point, they will have no assurance that the targets will be limited to Democrats, or even avowed Never Trump Republicans like Liz Cheney.

From Slate

Lawsuits and criminal cases “are social post-mortems; they do not deal with the diagnosis of living situations, but with judgments as to dead and past events. All that is available by way of data for the task is the report that individuals can give of the present state of their recollection of past observation and whatever record may be contained in existing documents and, occasionally, other things.”

From Slate

“What we should be doing is reducing the present population fairly dramatically in Scotland, so that we're in line with other European countries, and at the same time moving money out so that we're better equipped to support people in the community.”

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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