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Definition: (noun) an underlying reason or explanation.
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re·cent

nt) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
Modern; new.
Recent Geology Of, belonging to, or denoting the Holocene Epoch. See Table at geologic time.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, new, fresh, from Latin recns, recent-; see ken- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
recen·cy or recent·ness(Noun), recent·ly(Adverb)

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