recent

being new in a time not long past

• “recent graduates”
• “a recent addition to the house”
• “recent buds on the apple trees”

of the immediate past or just previous to the present time

• “a late development”
• “their late quarrel”
• “his recent trip to Africa”
• “in recent months”
• “a recent issue of the journal”

near to or not long before the present

• “recent times”
• “of recent origin”