{
  "id": "recent.temporal",
  "term": "recent",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that happened since a little time before now",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "happen.event-occurrence",
      "since.temporal",
      "little.size",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "when an event occurs after a brief interval preceding now, we treat it as recent",
    "novel_properties": [
      "proximity to present",
      "bounded recency",
      "measured by small duration"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The James Webb Space Telescope detected light from the galaxy GLASS-z13, formed about 13.3 billion years ago, just 400 million years after the Big Bang.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the ChatGPT system updated its model weights to version GPT-4, reflecting changes trained on data up to late 2022.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2021 eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma began on September 19 and lasted 85 days, reshaping the island’s geology.",
      "domain": "geology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "new.recent",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "recent is a kind of new"
    },
    {
      "id": "example.temporal",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "recent vs old"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "young.age"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "recent"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "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 'little.size' and 'time.dimension' to align record with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-recent.temporal"
}