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AT PRESENT

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the present moment

Example:

it could happen any time now

Synonyms:

at present; now

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 Context examples: 

There was another point, which a little perplexed him at present.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I shall grow more catholic in time, but at present I can't help being jealous of those ghosts of the past, and you know your past is full of ghosts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The model-consensus at present is that of a Big Bang followed by an expansion.

(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

At present, there are no studies that consider both cognitive data and autopsy results from the same apes to distinguish between normal and pathologic aging processes.

(New research detects Alzheimer's disease markers in nonhuman primates, National Science Foundation)

The Englishman is a patient creature, but at present his temper is a little inflamed, and it would be as well not to try him too far.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At present it may not be, for mine arm is stiff from this small touch, and I would fain do you full honor when we cross swords again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But an eccentricity is very bon ton at present, and if you feel any leaning towards one, I should certainly advise you to let it run its course.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Clonal proliferations that arise in the skin that have histiocytic differentiation (at present determined by F4/80 immunohistochemical staining).

(Histiocytic Neoplasms of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

We have no trace of him at present, although our exertions to discover him are unremitted; but they will not restore my beloved William!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)