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Examples of current in a Sentence
Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
Given the recent voting proclivities of younger voters and especially those who are current or recent college graduates, Madison and surrounding Dane County should be a trove of votes for Democrats.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 13 Apr. 2024
Between a third and half of all female homicide victims in the U.S. are killed by a current or former male partner, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
Additional reporting by: Maya Polton is a former marketing manager and current freelance writer who covers food, home, and parenting.
—Staff Author, Parents, 13 Apr. 2024
After his instructional assistant Byron Cowart painstakingly measured the current sculpture to figure out its dimensions and sizing, the group custom made special tools and got to work making the statue come to life.
—Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024
The country’s current President Bernardo Arévalo, an anti-corruption figure who defied the odds and won the election last year in a landslide victory, has promised to empower the judiciary.
—Tara John, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
And the current $39 million ask, while substantially improved, is a lofty figure.
—James McClain, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024
Still, with the current fuel surge prices, there's no telling how much a ride will cost you.
—Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2024
Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 12 Apr. 2024
Plastic producers need to make a dent in the problem
The Great Lakes don't have currents like oceans do, so the litter that people see didn't wash up from far away.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024
The powerful currents of flash floods can carry drivers off the road.
—Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2024
Ideally, this would expose the electrode to a greater volume of water, more electric charge, and generate a larger current.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
The vacation started out well: Demi and her siblings had been having a great time, Morgan said, and Demi was especially fond of the resort’s lazy river, a water ride with a gentle current that guests could go tubing in.
—Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
There's an action river (not to be mistaken for a lazy river), too, called Crystal River Rapids, where you're pushed along in a brisk current at four feet per second.
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—Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2024
For three days, satellite photos show, the vessel largely stayed in place thanks to low winds and weak currents.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2024
Both the wind and currents picked up on February 23, when the ship began drifting for a second time, says Robert Parkington, an intelligence analyst with geospatial analysis firm Geollect.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2024
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Word History
Adjective
Latininization of Middle English corrant, curraunt, borrowed from Anglo-French curant, corant, present participle of coure, courir "to run, flow," going back to Latin currere "to run, roll, move swiftly, flow," going back to Indo-European *kr̥s-e- "run," whence also Greek epíkouros "helping, helper" (from *epíkorsos "running toward," with o-grade ablaut), Old Irish carr "cart, wagon," Welsh car "vehicle" (from Celtic *kr̥s-o-), and perhaps Germanic *hursa- horse entry 1
Note: The Indo-European base has generally been taken as a primary verb, though Latin is the only language in which it is so attested.
Noun
Latinization of Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Middle French courant, going back to Old French, noun derivative from corant, curant, present participle of coure, courir "to run, flow" — more at current entry 1
Adjective
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1b
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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“Current.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/current. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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