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Synonyms for recently
The synonym for recently recorded in this bank is lately, in the sense "in the recent past". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for recently
- latelyadverb, in the sense "in the recent past"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day recently is audited in a second meaning.
in the recent past
He was in Paris recently.
The true synonym
lately
Same sentence, swapped: He was in Paris lately.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- earlier
- previously
- yesterday
Where recently turns up in the game
recently is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where recently is the trap
- denselyadverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is thickly, in the sense "closely packed together", and recently is on the board beside it.
- distantlyadverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is remotely, in the sense "to a remote degree, as in a distant family connection", and recently is one of the three tiles that lose.
- widelyadverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is pervasively, in the sense "over a large area, scope, or number of people", and recently is on the board beside it.
Play recently
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so recently reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The same bank, read from both sides
recently is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.