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Present tense

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Noun
  1. 1
    A grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time.

    "Animals—lions and zebras and beautiful snakes—live vividly in the present tense, in a bright unconsciousness of time. That is their innocence and their limitation. Humans carry with them their experiences, their pasts; men and women work with a knowledge of consequences and, doing so, impose order on the chaotic present and project consequences into the future."

  2. 2
    a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking wordnet

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