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[kur-uh

nt-lee, kuhr-]

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adverb

at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.

Origin:
1570–80; current + -ly

Can be confused: currently, immediately, momentarily, now, presently, soon (see synonym note at immediately; see usage note at presently).

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Screengrabs for online job listings that are aimed at currently employed workers.

The paper is currently seeking interns for the summer.

We are currently updating the site and should be back within a few hours.

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Screengrabs for online job listings that are aimed at currently employed workers.

The paper is currently seeking interns for the summer.

We are currently updating the site and should be back within a few hours.

The hope is to replace the costly, toxic electrodes currently used in lithium-ion batteries.

With hundreds of nanoproducts currently being tested in humans, recommendations aim to safeguard trial participants.

He is currently working on a book about the world's largest unsolved art heist.

She currently works as a consultant, designer and a freelance writer, specializing.

Submissions will open shortly as the site is currently under construction.

She currently covers the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.

About half the students currently enrolled in higher education are at community colleges.

Comments are currently closed and new comments are no longer being accepted.

Although the chemical known as deet currently dominates the mosquito-repellent market, nature is full of bug-banishing strategies.

Stein is currently professor emeritus of mathematics at.

Workers will remove the marble panels that currently block the view to the museum's third floor.

Prune to shape during bloom, cutting currently flowering or spent stems back to a main branch.

But the actual speed of the memory is currently limited by how fast one can steer a laser beam to the correct spot on the memory.

Not many countries in the world are currently immersed in significantly reforming their higher education systems.

He currently serves as the chief operating officer.

Stainless steel tags used currently can impede the birds' ability to swim.

They are also currently building the solar sailor, and hope to launch it at.

Fortunately, the paranoia currently festering is not yet sufficiently widespread to repeat our earlier mistake.

The combined street value of the bottles currently in this room runs into the tens of thousands.

They have found a way to create a stronger and safer frame than the artificial bone scaffolds currently in use.

Unfortunately, this same department is currently under fire.

One idea is offering credit scores that are more fine-grained than those currently provided.

Scientists are currently investigating the diets and eating habits of.

The standard method currently requires several pinpricks a day to obtain small.

The above photo inspired the skeletal display currently on view.

Brusaw and his wife are currently testing solar panels in his backyard.

It may depend on the engineering background you currently have.

China is currently in a ambiguous position since it is neither weak nor the absolute strongest.

We are currently reviewing our internal procedures to do our best to ensure that this type of mistake does not happen again.

New tools attempt to capture the sixth extinction currently underway, while also highlighting ways to stop it.

Whether oil is currently used to generate power or not is besides the point.

They're currently pushing to cycle folks through the program more quickly.

But more savings or higher taxation now would require those currently at work to defer consumption.

He is currently helping plan a new government for his country.

He is currently writing a book about early woolly mammoth discoveries.

Then there's the question of what might take the place of the organisms that currently live in the warmest parts of the oceans.

Kids play at our house all the time and currently climb the tree.

There are currently no favourites selected by this user.

Currently this lava-viewing site is operated by the county of.

The other problem is that the disposal of coal fly ash is currently exempt from federal regulation.

There is another option, a southern route for the highway that would actually serve more people currently cut off from the world.

Applicants who currently hold full-time faculty appointments should send a list of references.

Why they fell so far behind may be more of a mystery than why they are currently flourishing.

Pigs are currently the favored animal because their metabolism is similar to that of humans.

Research is currently being conducted on other possible uses for these devices.

They are currently stored in two really big and really heavy boxes.

The end of the year is nigh, and holiday events are either already underway or currently being planned.

Currently children illegally obtain prescription drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, all of which are regulated.

Compounds currently in clinical trials close these cellular pores to stop the wave in its tracks.

There is currently much more evidence of a global catastrophe that may have devastated a global civilization.

Poshard's case, which is currently being evaluated by another committee of faculty members, remains to be seen.

The issue isn't whether one particular commodity or investment is currently overpriced.

As currently understood, general relativity and quantum mechanics are incompatible.

As currently written, the bill would exempt from expanded oversight the loans that small businesses make to their customers.

It has not recovered since and is currently around.

Scientists are currently pursuing a variety of such devices to generate electricity in an environmentally friendly manner.

Imagine that success on some of these currently marginal climate issues came fairly quickly and easily.

Suicide is currently the third leading killer of teenagers, after accidents and homicide.

String theory, currently a popular idea, holds that the universe is made up of tiny vibrating strings.

They have significantly higher energy density and can store more electricity than any currently available technology.

First, he rejects any ideas that are at odds with what is currently understood about the fundamental laws of physics.

Much of the work currently being done in alternative fuel has no economic direction and therefore no feasibility.

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World English Dictionary

current (ˈkʌrənt)

—*adj*
1.	of the immediate present; in progress: current events
2.	most recent; up-to-date
3.	commonly known, practised, or accepted; widespread: a current rumour
4.	circulating and valid at present: current coins

—n
5.	(esp of water or air) a steady usually natural flow
6.	a mass of air, body of water, etc, that has a steady flow in a particular direction
7.	the rate of flow of such a mass
8.	physics Also called: electric current
	a. a flow of electric charge through a conductor
	b. I the rate of flow of this charge. It is measured in amperes
9.	a general trend or drift: currents of opinion

[C13: from Old French corant, literally: running, from corre to run, from Latin currere]

'currently

—*adv*

'currentness

—n

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