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Synonyms for present

• contemporary
• present-day
• accounted for
• in attendance
• unavailable
• not present
• nonattendant
• in existence
• at the moment
• at this time
• at the present time
• in this day and age

for the present

• for a while
• in the meantime
• temporarily
• for the moment
• for the time being
• provisionally
• not for long
• for the nonce

the present

• the time being
• here and now
• this day and age
• the present moment

the present day

• modern times
• the present age or time
• benefaction
• largesse or largess
• put at someone's disposal
• put forward
• characterize
• be the presenter of
• put before the public
• demonstrate
• acquaint someone with

present itself

Present yourself.

• make an appearance

the current time

In existence now, to make known socially, to produce on the stage, to make a gift of, to give formally or officially, to bring forward for formal consideration, to put before another for acceptance, something bestowed freely.

• presentation

the period of time that is happening now

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• present moment

something presented as a gift

• birthday gift
• birthday present
• Christmas gift
• Christmas present
• wedding gift
• wedding present

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

• present tense
• historical present

give an exhibition of to an interested audience

Bring forward and present to the mind, perform (a play), especially on a stage.

• performing arts

hand over formally

Give, especially as an honor or reward.

• certificate

give as a present

Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea), cause to come to know personally.

• familiarise
• familiarize
• reintroduce
• re-introduce

represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture

• artistic creation
• artistic production

present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize

Formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc, recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation, temporal sense, being or existing in a specified place.

• prescription medicine
• prescriptive
• prescriptive grammar
• prescriptive linguistics
• prescriptivism
• presence chamber
• presence of mind
• presenile dementia
• present participle
• present perfect
• present perfect tense
• present progressive
• present progressive tense
• present times
• presentable
• presentational
• presentiment
• presentment
• presentness
• preservable
• preservation
• preservationist
• preservative
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• President Buchanan
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• Presenteeism
• Presenteeist
• Presenteeists
• presentence
• Presentence Investigation
• Presentiality
• presentially
• Presentiate
• presentient
• Presentific
• Presentifical
• presentimental
• presentiments
• presenting arms
• Presenting Authentic Religion to Youth
• Presenting Bank
• Presenting Banks
• Presenting complaint
• presenting her as
• presenting her with
• presenting herself
• presenting him as
• presenting him with
• presenting himself
• presenting it as
• presenting it to
• presenting it with
• presenting itself
• presenting me as
• presenting me with
• presenting myself
• presenting one with
• presenting oneself
• presenting ourselves
• presenting s's
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• TO GIVE SOMETHING TO SOMEONE

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• SOMETHING THAT YOU GIVE

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AG Garland denounces Trump claim ‘deadly force’ approved in Mar-a-Lago raid: ‘False and extremely dangerous’

A ttorney General Merrick Garland ripped former President Donald Trump Thursday for ginning up outrage over a routine federal authorization that permitted the use of “deadly force” during the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.

“That allegation is false, and it is extremely dangerous,” Garland, who approved seeking a search warrant for the Palm Beach, Fla., residence, told reporters.

“The document that is being referred to in the allegation is the Justice Department’s standard policy limiting the use of force,” he explained.

“As the FBI advises, it is part of a standard operations plan for searches and, in fact, it was even used in the consensual search of President Biden’s home .”

Trump, 77, emerged from his Manhattan “hush money” criminal trial proceedings on Tuesday and trumpeted the allegation from his Truth Social account.

“WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the ‘Icebox,’ and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional [sic] Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE — 25TH AMENDMENT!” the former president railed.

The FBI said in a statement the same day that the “use of deadly force” was “standard protocol” for executing all search warrants.

However, Trump ally and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) wrote in a widely denounced X post that “The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light.”

Trump’s attorneys had first highlighted the authorization in a Tuesday evidence dump in the classified documents criminal case, which they have argued arose from the “unconstitutional” search of Mar-a-Lago.

“On August 8, 2022, armed FBI agents stormed the private residence of a former president of the United States,” wrote lawyers Todd Blanche and Christopher Kise.

“What was unthinkable with respect to President Clinton’s recordings, and deemed unwarranted with respect to Hillary Clinton’s destruction of evidence, was determined to be appropriate by the Biden Administration for President Biden’s chief political rival.”

Special counsel Jack Smith has indicted Trump on 40 counts of illegal retention of “national defense information” among more than 100 classified files, as well as lying to federal authorities who sought them and one of his own attorneys.

The former president has pleaded not guilty to the charges, pointing to the precedent of former President Bill Clinton’s having stashed recordings of wide-ranging conversations — that were potentially presidential records — in his sock drawer.

Under the Presidential Records Act, the National Archives and Records Administration is tasked with retaining all presidential records while letting former presidents retain merely personal ones.

Trump’s legal team has deployed Clinton’s sock drawer defense as proof that presidents are able to determine whether records are personal or official.

Two other co-defendants — Trump valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira — have also pleaded not guilty to conspiring with the former president to shift boxes of classified documents out of the eye of federal authorities and wipe security camera footage.

The indictment is one of four Trump is facing, though US District Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month and the case is now not expected to be heard until after the Nov. 5 election.

Biden, 81, evaded criminal charges in February for also retaining classified documents at his home and a former personal office in Washington, DC, though special counsel Robert Hur determined the ex-vice president had “willfully retained and disclosed” the sensitive files to his ghostwriter.

Hur concluded that he could not prove willful retention beyond a reasonable doubt, in part because a jury would view the oldest-ever president “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

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When will the Trump trial reach a verdict? 'Anybody's guess' once jury deliberation begins

Donald Trump's hush money trial is nearing its end. The prosecution and defense have rested their cases and closing arguments are scheduled to start Tuesday, May 28.

The former president has appeared nearly daily in the Manhattan courthouse over the past five weeks as prosecutors built a case to argue he falsified business records in 34 different instances. Throughout 19 witnesses and dozens of pieces of evidence, they tried to prove Trump disguised reimbursements to former aide Michael Cohen , who they accuse of violating campaign finance laws when he paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2016 to stay quiet about a sexual encounter that allegedly happened a decade earlier.

Though Trump has been charged in four different criminal cases , this case is likely the only one to reach a trial ahead of the 2024 general election. Now that both sides have rested their cases, 12 jurors will decide if the presumptive Republican nominee will also be a convicted felon . Experts say we could have that decision by the end of next week.

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Jurors were excused Tuesday, but both the prosecution and the defense must return in the afternoon to argue over the instructions Judge Juan Merchan will provide to the jury ahead of their deliberations.

Those instructions could be crucial to the outcome of the case. Merchan will tell the jury what the applicable law in the case is. He will then task them with not just deciding what happened factually in the case – for example, whether former President Donald Trump authorized Michael Cohen to pay porn star Stormy Daniels hush money – but also determining whether Trump's actions violated the law.

Merchan told jurors they would hear closing arguments Tuesday, May 28, and seemed to put plans in place for them to stay late in order to get through both sides. If jurors are able to come in the following next day, typically an off day for this court, they could start deliberating then.

The 12 jurors must come to a unanimous decision to convict or acquit Trump.

How long can the jury take to deliberate?

There is no limit for how long a jury can take to deliberate, says Diana Florence, a former Manhattan prosecutor.

"But, obviously, that doesn't mean that ... the world will be ending and they'll still be deliberating," Florence said.

If the group cannot come to a unanimous decision, it is considered a "hung jury" and the judge must declare a mistrial. "You know it when you see it when it comes to a hung jury," she said.

But any deliberation taking at least three days would be considered a long time, according to Kevin J. O’Brien , a New York-based trial lawyer.

If the jury takes a long time reviewing and discussing the evidence, it could indicate good news for the prosecution, he said.

"Defense verdicts tend to be in quickly, because people have their views, and one or more jurors are not going to budge. ... They don't go through the labor of weighing all the evidence," O’Brien said. "But if they're out three or four days, that tends to suggest they're really looking at the evidence. And of course, the evidence favors the prosecution."

When will there be a verdict in the Trump trial?

If jury begins deliberation by May 30, which the schedule indicates they could, Florence said we could have a verdict by the end of next week.

"Could it take longer? Sure," she said. "That's where it becomes anybody's guess and it's reading tea leaves."

Synonyms of being

• as in breathing
• as in person
• as in object
• as in essence
• as in living
• as in sitting
• as in ranking
• as in happening
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Thesaurus Definition of being

 (Entry 1 of 3)

Synonyms & Similar Words

• contemporary
• up - to - date
• modernistic
• ultramodern
• space - age
• supermodern
• new - fashioned
• present - day

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• out - of - date
• old - fashioned
• antediluvian
• noncontemporary

Thesaurus Definition of being  (Entry 2 of 3)

• human being
• personality
• individuality
• manifestation
• name of the game
• essentiality
• quintessence
• incarnation
• personification
• alpha and omega

Thesaurus Definition of being  (Entry 3 of 3)

• flourishing
• keeping (on)
• disappearing
• evaporating
• passing away
• discontinuing
• dying (down)
• overlooking
• hanging around
• sticking around
• classifying
• categorizing
• compartmentalizing
• coming down
• transpiring
• coming about
• coming to pass
• materializing
• shaping (up)
• intervening
• springing (up)
• cropping (up)
• falling out
• turning out

Phrases Containing being

• Supreme Being

being (as or as how or that)

• for the time being

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As Supernatural Claims Spread Online, Vatican Updates Its Rules on Them

People have long claimed sightings of the Virgin Mary or bleeding crucifixes, and some endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church have become hugely popular pilgrimage destinations.

By Elisabetta Povoledo

Reporting from Vatican City

The Roman Catholic Church has long been vigilant when it comes to supernatural apparitions like professed sightings of the Virgin Mary , weeping Madonnas or bleeding crucifixes. Over the centuries, it has endorsed only a small percentage of the thousands that have been claimed, in an effort to protect the faithful from charlatans, doctrinal errors or attempts to profit.

Yet the age of social media has accelerated the spread of unverified claims, leaving the Vatican fearful that such phenomena can easily spin out of hand and out of its control.

So on Friday, the Vatican unveiled new, comprehensive guidelines for evaluating visions of the Virgin Mary and other supernatural faith-based phenomena in a document that offers detailed instructions to bishops, who have been responsible for evaluating reported claims.

“The Church needs clear procedures,” states the document, whose guidelines were approved by Pope Francis this month, adding that the intention is not to deny all new claims that emerge. “The norms for proceeding in the discernment of alleged supernatural phenomena that we now present here are not intended to control or (even less) stifle the Spirit,” the document says.

Given that apparitions or other sightings are private experiences for individuals, the church does not require the faithful to accept the authenticity of such events. “The church gives the faithful the freedom to pay attention” or not, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the head of the Vatican’s doctrine office, told a news conference on Friday.

But some of those that the Vatican has endorsed, like the 19th-century apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France , and those in early-20th-century Fátima, Portugal , have become hugely popular — and lucrative — pilgrimage destinations and focuses of faith.

The claims are not just from ages past. Last March, a bishop north of Rome shut down the claims of a self-proclaimed visionary who professed to receive regular messages from the Virgin Mary, via a statue known as the “Madonna of Trevignano.” For nearly nine years, hundreds of pilgrims would gather on the 3rd of each month on a hill above a lake to pray to a statue of the Virgin Mary and hear her messages.

A commission of theologians, psychologists and canonists concluded this month that it did not have a supernatural dimension. But that decision has not completely deterred the faithful from gathering in Trevignano, and Cardinal Fernández said on Friday that church would continue to monitor the situation to determine whether more drastic steps were needed.

Cardinal Fernández also said the new rules would help the church make a decision about the visions of the Virgin Mary that are said to have occurred since 1981 at Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Millions of believers have found spiritual solace in Medjugorje, with dozens of reports of miraculous healings, conversions and religious callings, as pilgrims are drawn there in large numbers. But the reported apparitions have also fueled controversy, in part because of their duration and clockwork regularity.

The Vatican has commissioned two reports on the sightings but has not published the findings, and while Pope Francis has supported pilgrimages to Medjugorje, he has also expressed doubts.

“I prefer the Madonna as a mother, our mother, and not a woman who’s the head of a telegraph office who sends a message every day at a certain time,” Francis told reporters in 2017 .

The norms issued on Friday replace less specific rules that were written in 1978 and made public in 2011. The new guidelines offer six possible “prudential conclusions” for church leaders investigating events of alleged supernatural origin, ranging from outright rejection to more nuanced reasonings.

Bishops investigating a possible supernatural event will now convene a commission including a theologian, a canon lawyer and an expert to “carry out a detailed examination of every aspect of the event.” The Dicastery of Congregation of the Faith, the Vatican’s doctrinal watchdog, will also weigh in on each case.

Most significant, the church will no longer issue declarations that accept the supernatural origin of a phenomenon. Instead, “after assessing the various spiritual and pastoral fruits of the event and finding no substantial negative elements in it,” the church can issue a citation that essentially says that nothing should stand in the way of allowing “the bishop to draw pastoral benefit from the spiritual phenomenon,” even promoting its spread.

“It’s complicated, but regulating the supernatural has always been complicated,” said David Murgia, an expert on apparitions and the author of books on several cases.

The document also says that taking advantage of people’s faith should be “considered of particular moral gravity,” and that if there is “a deliberate intent to bewilder and deceive others for ulterior motives,” bishops can hand down punishments. Cardinal Fernandez said that in some cases that could include excommunication.

“As always, the Vatican tries to walk a fine line between recognizing that, yes, of course there are spiritual benefits that can come from apparitions,” said John Thavis, a Vatican expert and author of “ The Vatican Prophecies ,” which explains how the church deals with such matters.

“But on the other hand,” he added, “we have to be very careful, because if something turns out to be false or not supernatural, then you can disappoint a lot of people and leave them wondering why the Vatican has taken so long to pronounce on an apparition.”

Giuseppe Ferrari, the secretary of an association in Bologna, Italy , that monitors socio-religious phenomena, said that cases of reported apparitions “increase constantly — some finish, some begin.” Social media is one factor in why such phenomena spread so widely, but many people also, he said, experience fragility and the need for “certainty in the afterlife.”

Elisabetta Povoledo is a reporter based in Rome, covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture of the region. She has been a journalist for 35 years. More about Elisabetta Povoledo