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present-day (notcomparable)

  1. Inexistencenow;current orcontemporary.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed,The Black Art, London: Long, page19:
      Antlers and horns have been the insignia of devils and black magicians from time immemorial, and are worn bypresent-day witch doctors.
    • 1960 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, inTrains Illustrated, page110:
      As for the present diesel main line units of 2,000 to 2,300 h.p. on the London Midland and Western Regions, they can offer little more than the maintenance ofpresent-day schedules - well below modern European speed standards - [...].
    • 1963 April, “Chepstow Bridge is rebuilt”, inModern Railways, page 265, photo caption:
      The new bridge (6) gives headroom of 13ft at high tide, sufficient forpresent-day river traffic.
    • 1973 [1962],Mark Elvin, quoting Tanigawa Michio, “Sino-barbarian synthesis in north China”, inThe Pattern of the Chinese Past: A Social and Economic Interpretation[1], Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press,→ISBN,→OCLC,→OL,page46[2]:
      Ch'üan Ch'i was the scion of a great family of Feng-yang in Shang-lo [inpresent-day Shensi province].
    • 1989, Che Muqi [车慕奇], “Places of Historic Interest, Scenic Beauty, and Revolutionary Relics”, in丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present]‎[3],Beijing:Foreign Languages Press,→ISBN,→OCLC,page62:
      The ancient Kingdom of Ruoqiang controlled the rest ofpresent-day Ruoqiang County, while today’s Qiemo (Qarqan) County was the territory of the ancient State of Qiemo, and the ancient walled city of Washixia inpresent-day Ruoqiang County was possibly its capital.
    • 2004, Xiaoneng Yang, “Early Imperial China (Qin Dynasty through Southern and Northern Dynasties Period)”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor,New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century,volume 2,Yale University Press;Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page324:
      Thepresent-day city of Ji’an at the southern tip of Jilin province was the second capital (3-427CE) of the Gaogouli kingdom during its middle period.
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:present-day.

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in existence now
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