Collocations for "recently"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "recently" in context.
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recently
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adv
- have recently [begun, joined, tried]
- have [begun] recently
- has recently made [changes, improvements] to
- have been [sad, happy, lonely] recently
- has been [added, published, updated, announced] recently
- recently went back to [school, work]
- haven't [seen, heard from] her recently
- recently have not been able to
- have not been able to until (just) recently
- only until (very) recently [have, were] you
- there have not been any [cases, examples] until recently
- until recently there [had not been] any [cases] of
- a recently discovered [species, cure, advancement]
- recently viewed [videos, links, profiles]
'recently' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
add
- author
- beef
- change
- evidence
- form
- forward
- friend
- graduate
- notice
- open
- return
- sentence
- suffer
- being
- up
- president
- easy
- OK
- known
- cave
- clown
- crab
- creek
- deceased
- economics
- saint
- yard
- inheritance
- emerge
- overwhelmed
- uptight
- wed
- baked
- dramatically
- dreary
- mint
- lime
- ambition
- foreground
- unfriendly
- blog