How to Use present-day in a Sentence

present-day

adjective
  • Flash forward to present-day Oz.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 20 Feb. 2026
  • And yet these weapons continue to present a very present-day threat.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
  • That means a legend and a present-day contender can both show up at full strength.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Swift's album cover is a present-day take of her in a bathtub.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The study also showed that present-day isolation rates vary by age.
    — Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
  • In some cases, this analysis spells doom for a present-day law.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
  • On the other hand, present-day Tai has her eyes only on the prize.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But the Hawks’ present-day problems ripped them right back into the here and now.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The move was made in part for present-day value, and in part to duck a pricey luxury tax bill.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2025
  • One grave was of a woman buried with a glass bead from Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq.
    — Reuters, CNN, 22 June 2023
  • But there has to be a present-day urgency compelling the return to the past.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The tools were dug up from a sandstone layer within a present-day cornfield.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Yet in present-day Ghana, surfing is largely the domain of tourists.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Megalodon has a lot in common with its present-day relative, the great white shark.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Artists of decades and centuries past to be held to present-day comportment standards?
    — Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • But there is no sympathy for the club’s present-day recruitment.
    — Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • How does present-day Kartel compare to the man that went away 13 years ago?
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The Magic Lounge is by no means alone in present-day Chicago.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The better story won a long time ago and froze into a myth with present-day repercussions.
    — Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This present-day Deer Lady smiles all the time, even if much of her pleasure comes from killing.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The Hostel series project is described as a present-day take on the concept.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2025
  • The oral histories of many present-day tribes link their ancestors to earthen mounds.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 June 2023
  • Sitting in his present-day home in La Costa, Mitchell laughed at the irony.
    — Kyle Kensing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Starke played the younger version of the character, while her mom played the older, present-day version.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Within one of the graves, the team found a woman buried with a glass bead from present-day Iraq (Mesopotamia).
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • This came as a surprise not only because of where those planes were — a swath of my present-day neighborhood — but when.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • This location is just minutes from the firm’s present-day headquarters.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 19 Nov. 2025
  • So that was part of it with Damar [Hamlin] of, what is Damar’s present-day story?
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Typically, a pick one year into the future is worth roughly half of what a present-day pick is worth.
    — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 19 May 2026
  • Saxon and Lochlan In terms of present-day action, the brothers don’t do a whole lot in this episode.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025

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