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• Make a list of all those who are present at the meeting .
• Everyone who was present agreed to amend the proposal .
• The meeting can only take place if the chairman is present.
• Many important guests were present for the opening of the new school .
• Her husband was present at the delivery .
• There's no time like the present.
• The weather's fine as far as the present is concerned .
• What happened in the past still influences the present.
• The film switches in time between the past and the present.
• Life was slower in the past than in the present.

present verb [T] ( GIVE )

Present verb [t] ( information ), present verb [t] ( tv/radio ), present verb [t] ( play/film ), present verb [t] ( introduce ), present verb [t] ( opportunity ).

(Definition of present from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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Definition of 'present'

Present existing or happening now.

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