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1. In the recent past.
   1. a short while ago.

      My recently published book about the life stories of recently-arrived immigrants.

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      The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

      1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

      The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail.

      1982, A Field Guide to the Birds of Japan, Tokyo: Kodansha International, page 8

      Synonyms: newly, lately, freshly · Antonyms: long ago, long since

   2. in recent times.

      I haven't been sleeping well recently.

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      Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

      2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30

      Synonyms: newly, lately, freshly · Antonyms: long ago, long since