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  1. Is there a good synonym for "recency"? - English Language & Usage …

    As far as recency is concerned, recentness appears to be the only synonym available. However, from what I understand from your question, temporal proximity is what fits your need best.

  2. What word refers to how recent something is?

    Jun 12, 2019 · I don't intend using it in a sentence but rather as one metric among several. Example metrics: Experience (rated low to high) Appeal (rated low to high) Recency (rated 1 year ago to now) …

  3. Single word(s) that describes all activity sorted by recency

    1 We are struggling to find the correct word (s) that describes a list of all messages in the system that are sorted by recency. Trending does not work because what we are displaying is not what is …

  4. When do I use "I" and "I have"? [duplicate] - English Language & Usage ...

    May 9, 2018 · It is arguable that the experiential and resultative categories are broad enough to cover all non-continuative uses, but recency adds an important component to the account. For example, [15ii] …

  5. Is there a word for the bias of not knowing what came before?

    May 14, 2021 · Recency illusion is a cognitive bias commonly reinforced by the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, which occurs when one suddenly starts noticing something one's noticed for the first …

  6. grammatical number - "neither is" vs. "neither are"? - English Language ...

    I don’t have time at the moment, but if someone else is in the mood for some corpus or n -gram searching (or can find someone who’s already done the research), it would be very interesting to …

  7. Is there a better word than "just" for describing the recency of an event?

    The only Americanism I see in the sentences you cite is the use of just with the Past Simple. In British English, just is usually used with the Present Perfect tense, which is considered the correct thing to …

  8. etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Mar 4, 2019 · Linquists refer to the recency illusion where a usage is thought to be newer than it is; it is particularly common for usages that someone doesn't like.

  9. Difference between "under", "underneath", "below" and "beneath"

    Sep 7, 2018 · It leads me to the confusion, when it comes to contradicting between some prepositions. Today, I want to know the distinction between the two similar senses of these prepositions: under, …

  10. Idiom "Catches Me Out" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Jun 2, 2023 · The transitive multi word verb catch someone out has several different senses: catch someone out [show / discover wrongdoing] [Collins labels this sense 'mainly British'; M-W doesn't …