topical
He began speaking again with an urgency and topicality that simply could not be ignored.
Too much topicality may distract from the goal of making a piece of art that will endure.
Topicality can have a huge impact on the success or failure of a specific creative execution.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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carpe diem
contemporaneity
contemporarily
contemporary
current
currently
hereon
hereupon
immediate
in current use
in this day and ageidiom
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present
present-day
presently
sitting
state
still
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Examples of topicality

topicality
Topicality, which is grammatically encoded by case and agreement, is mapped to the pragmatics interface by an algorithm.
This book is an excellent reference for students and researchers alike and scores well on topicality, authoritativeness and accuracy.
The corresponding functional interpretations include actor, topicality, perspective, givenness, and definiteness.
The machine detected levels of topicality of this document that with 54% diverged from the topic levels manually constructed.
The advantages, however, include a topicality and a constant reminder of the many exciting frontiers under active investigation.
Despite the topicality of the public/private theme for current policy development, there is no overt political message, and no claim to political relevance.
Graphical overviews of large document landscapes1 on the whole do not explicitly represent topicality; it is not, in fact, clear that they could do so.
For example, it is possible to run the system only on the topicality scores or only with respect to the position method.
Taylor demonstrates that topicality is an important factor contributing to a number of grammaticality judgements discussed in the literature.
Secondly, the question of how to implement factors such as topicality and cue validity on corpus data would have to be addressed more directly.
Some sections were obviously completed several years ahead of publication and consequently lack the topicality evident in others.
However, the waves of new observation and theory inevitably combine with the tides of fashion to erode the topicality of even the best texts.
Still, such methods employ a very light-weight notion of topicality, with themes derived, indirectly, via unsupervised clustering.
Any value of count seems to be attainable, though very large, indicative of high topicality, counts are relatively infrequent.
Firefighters operate with a slightly different methodology, making topicality the main point.
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