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a steady flow (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air" a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes" occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship''s current position" actual, afoot(p), circulating(a), contemporary, incumbent, live, ongoing, on-line(a), prevailing, topical, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" |
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