current events
noun
variants
or less commonly current affairs
chiefly US
: important events that are happening in the world
She reads several newspapers so she can keep track of current events.
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Choose your plan → TOP STORIES Views from The Post’s Editorial Board on current events
Opinion|Long covid might presage a wave of disability claims.
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Allyson Chiu, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
Pulling no punches, the film examines the institution that claims to serve and protect, making devastating use of archival footage, talking-head interviews with writers and scholars and montages of current events.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
In the early 2000s, Jon Bon Jovi cautiously started to get more politically active, hosting an Al Gore fundraiser at his house and writing about current events and social issues more pointedly on the band’s albums.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 15 June 2024
The screenplay was revised in order to be respectful of current events.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2024
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Allyson Chiu, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
Pulling no punches, the film examines the institution that claims to serve and protect, making devastating use of archival footage, talking-head interviews with writers and scholars and montages of current events.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
In the early 2000s, Jon Bon Jovi cautiously started to get more politically active, hosting an Al Gore fundraiser at his house and writing about current events and social issues more pointedly on the band’s albums.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 15 June 2024
The screenplay was revised in order to be respectful of current events.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2024
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“Current events.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/current%20events. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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