RECENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recently mean? 

• RECENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb RECENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in the recent past

  Familiarity information: RECENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the recent past

Synonyms:

late; lately; latterly; of late; recently

Context example:

the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also

Pertainym:

recent (of the immediate past or just previous to the present time)

 Context examples 

A recently recognized variant of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) expressing somatic hypermutations of the Immunoglobulin heavy chain (IGH) genes.

(Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma with Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Variable-Region Gene Somatic Hypermutation, NCI Thesaurus)

If I might offer you a word of advice, Inspector, it would be to arrest the page, who, as I understand, has only recently come into your service, Doctor.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One member of the FA complex was recently identified as BRCA2, which leads to Fanconi anemia when both copies of the gene are mutated.

(Cancer Susceptibility Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The target of this toxicity has also been recently been revealed.

(Acetaminophen Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Recently however, few studies showed that the acquisition of elementary associations such as stimulus-reflex response is possible during sleep, both in humans and in animals.

(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It was recently found that expression of fibronectin by Ang II is transcriptionally regulated by AP-1 complex in cardiac fibroblasts.

(Angiotensin II Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Until recently, surgery has been the only effective therapy for GIST.

(Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor of the Gastrointestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about whether an individual does or did forget things that happened recently.

(Did You Forget Things That Happened Recently or Where You Put Things or Appointments, NCI Thesaurus)

Until recently, the common type of diabetes in children and teens was type 1.

(Diabetes in Children and Teens, NIH)

More recently it has been used for studies of embryonic development.

(Drosophila, NCI Thesaurus)