{
  "id": "new.recent",
  "term": "new",
  "sense": "recent",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "temporal",
  "domain": "emergent",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A thing that comes into a setting and has not been there before, or does not persist from before.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "happen.event-occurrence",
      "persist.continue",
      "come.arrive",
      "setting.contextual",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "An event occurs in a setting where a thing arrives and is present but did not persist from before, making its presence recent.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recent presence",
      "non-persistence from prior state",
      "entry into context"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The first operational version of the Internet, ARPANET, connected four university nodes in 1969.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2011, the Arab Spring uprisings began in Tunisia and spread across several countries.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Higgs boson was observed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012 after decades of search.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "happen.event-occurrence",
      "type": "medium-for",
      "note": "newness requires an event of arrival or emergence"
    },
    {
      "id": "persist.continue",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "new things do not persist from before"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "create.production",
    "development.growth",
    "latest.new",
    "news.information",
    "no-free-openings.no-openings",
    "ripening.approaching",
    "the-compression-claim.assertion",
    "think.cognitive",
    "transferred.exchange",
    "transformation.phase",
    "updated.temporal",
    "young.age"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "new",
    "newer",
    "newest"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts from definition: come.arrive, setting.contextual, time.dimension. Definition remained correct and was not altered."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-new.recent"
}