I've been putting off starting my portfolio, but there's no time like the present, so I'll begin tonight.

Most online commenters are rude, present company excepted.

All the politicians are corrupt, present company excluded.

The analyst compared the net present values of the two projects before making a recommendation.

Linguistics students often study preterite-present verbs to understand how modal auxiliaries developed.

Teachers often explain present perfect progressives by comparing them to simpler tenses.

The team used presentation software to create a clear and engaging slide deck for the conference.

The presentation logic in the application should be isolated from business rules to facilitate testing and reuse.

Linguists debated whether the reconstructed preterite-presents reflected an intermediate stage in Proto-Germanic tense development.

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