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  • adjective Somewhat recent; not long ago.

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recent +‎ -ish

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  • In The Times's recentish relaunch, their worst decision in the eyes of me was to lose their standalone Saturday Books supplement (book reviews now fight for a few pages in a wider scale Review section), but by far worse in the eyes of the younger generation was themutation of the magazine "The Knowledge" into an A5 (small notebook size) rag called "The Playlist", into which the week's listings are crammed.

    Spy master Eric Ambler in The Times archive Maxine 2009

  • In The Times's recentish relaunch, their worst decision in the eyes of me was to lose their standalone Saturday Books supplement (book reviews now fight for a few pages in a wider scale Review section), but by far worse in the eyes of the younger generation was themutation of the magazine "The Knowledge" into an A5 (small notebook size) rag called "The Playlist", into which the week's listings are crammed.

    Spy master Eric Ambler in The Times archive Maxine 2009

  • For example there was a recentish cannibalism-with-consent case in Germany which turned on the fact that the victim was too drunk to consent to being murdered at the time of hisdeath.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman”  2010

  • In The Times's recentish relaunch, their worst decision in the eyes of me was to lose their standalone Saturday Books supplement (book reviews now fight for a few pages in a wider scale Review section), but by far worse in the eyes of the younger generation was themutation of the magazine "The Knowledge" into an A5 (small notebook size) rag called "The Playlist", into which the week's listings are crammed.

    PETRONA Maxine 2009

  • In The Times's recentish relaunch, their worst decision in the eyes of me was to lose their standalone Saturday Books supplement (book reviews now fight for a few pages in a wider scale Review section), but by far worse in the eyes of the younger generation was themutation of the magazine "The Knowledge" into an A5 (small notebook size) rag called "The Playlist", into which the week's listings are crammed.

    Books Maxine 2009

  • The language used by the characters was rather different than usual, pleasantly old fashioned I guess and unexpected since the dialogue is usually more casual/modern in Sirenia stories (not that it's always the same, like the recentish Eighth Veil which I also loved) ...

    "I used to be somebody. Now I'm somebody else." greygirlbeast 2010

  • For example there was a recentish cannibalism-with-consent case in Germany which turned on the fact that the victim was too drunk to consent to being murdered at the time of his death.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman”  2010

  • In The Times's recentish relaunch, their worst decision in the eyes of me was to lose their standalone Saturday Books supplement (book reviews now fight for a few pages in a wider scale Review section), but by far worse in the eyes of the younger generation was themutation of the magazine "The Knowledge" into an A5 (small notebook size) rag called "The Playlist", into which the week's listings are crammed.

    June 2009 Maxine 2009

  • Did you see the recentish posts where some YA authors posted their royalty statements & details of their advances?

    2009 Writing Income jimhines 2010

  • For example there was a recentish cannibalism-with-consent case in Germany which turned on the fact that the victim was too drunk to consent to being murdered at the time of his death.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Recent Michigan Prosecutions for “Seducing an Unmarried Woman”  2010

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