The ever-present hum of the refrigerator became background to their late-night conversations.

Many learners find the present subjunctive difficult because it differs from the indicative in form and use.

When learning French, she found the present conditional difficult to distinguish from other tenses.

Present-day smartphones have more computing power than early supercomputers.

She smiled as she opened the Christmas present and found a handmade scarf inside.

The Christmas present staged in the town square used LED sculptures and food stalls to create a contemporary Christmas atmosphere.

Many textbooks explain that the present progressive is used for actions happening at the moment of speaking.

Philosophers debate how long the specious present lasts and what it reveals about consciousness.

Many early anthropologists wrote about extinct cultures using the ethnographic present to make their descriptions seem immediate.

During the lecture, the instructor placed the original manuscript under the visual presenter so the whole class could see its fine details.