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During the recent past
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lately
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
"Lately" may refer to: "Lately" (Stevie Wonder song) "Lately" (Divine song) "Lately" (Samantha Mumba song) "Lately" (Lisa Scott-Lee song) "Lately" (Skunk Anansie song) "Lately", a song by British Sea Power from their album The Decline of British Sea Power ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB become ▪ Barra Inc. has lately become one of the hottest. ▪ And they lived in Atlanta-where talk-ing about the latest health food fads had lately become a passionate way of life. come ▪ But there has lately come a ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lately \Late"ly\, adv. Not long ago; recently; as, he has lately arrived from Italy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English lætlice "slow, sluggish;" see late (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "within recent times" is from late 15c., probably a new formation.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. recently; not long ago.
Usage examples of lately.
God only knew how much longer, Tara walking out on them, and he, admittedly, too busy lately to give her much of his time, she probably felt completely alone, unwanted and unneeded.
In independence we seek no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we have lately been confederated.
Somebody tauld her lately that ane Bell Calvert robbed her house, but she disna believe it.
Lately a certain aperient medicine has become highly popular with both doctors and patients in this country, the same being known as Cascara Sagrada.
Since I penned this, a company is forming to work valuable argentiferous copper-mines lately discovered on Lake Superior.
It was a rough leveling of the debris, upon which several small objects lay carelessly scattered, and at one corner of which a considerable amount of gasoline must have been spilled lately enough to leave a strong odor even at this extreme superplateau altitude.
But, lately, a lot of rumors have been spreading, especially an ancient beholder myth about the coming of the Cloakmaster.
Stuart Buffin undoubtedly witnessed was an Initiative Test, It is something that the Army has lately thought up to give employment to otherwise idle warriors.
Lately, however, Mipps had been baffled by a cerain sort of vagueness in his manner, and yet on thinking it over he realized that this casual preoccupation was accompanied or closely followed by reckless high spirits.
All the ceratopsids have lately been divided into two subfamilies, centrosaurines and chasmosaurines.
Round the table of citrean wood, highly polished and delicately wrought with silver arabesques, were placed the three couches, which were yet more common at Pompeii than the semicircular seat that had grown lately into fashion at Rome: and on these couches of bronze, studded with richer metals, were laid thick quiltings covered with elaborate broidery, and yielding luxuriously to the pressure.
Voltaire and Madame Denis threw their arms round my neck, but their embraces could not stop me, for Roland, to become mad, had to notice that he was in the same bed in which Angelica had lately been found in the arms of the too fortunate Medor, and I had to reach the next stanza.
She ended by saying that her daughter had been in service lately with a lady, and that she would be obliged if she could have her meals by herself.
If fresh cowhides had lately been deposited in this hiding-place where were they?
The great Daimios and the Hatamotos have fallen out about this affair of Matagoro, and lately it has seemed as if they meant to come to blows.