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currently

adverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkʌɹ.ənt.li//
  • United States//ˈkʌɹ ənt.li//
  • United States//kɝ.ənt.li//

At this moment, at present, now.

adverb

  1. 1

    At this moment, at present, now.

    All the beds of the hotel are currently occupied, but we have a free room tomorrow.

    I'm currently living with my parents while I find a new job.

    He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.

    CBP told CNN it currently processes “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”

Etymology

Etymology tree English current Middle English -ly English -ly English currently From current + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more currently
superlative
most currently
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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