The phrase "a recent date" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a date that is not far in the past, typically within a few days, weeks, or months.
Example: "Please submit your report by a recent date to ensure timely processing."
Alternatives: "a recent timeframe" or "a recent point in time."
After a recent date, I would have been happy to meet again but not to create the impression of romantic interest on my part.
Writing in the Times, the critic Jon Pareles called a recent date at Madison Square Garden "a show of confidence, prowess and aplomb".
Caffeine is her only vice, and she bailed on a recent date to smoke her first joint "because I'm an introvert," she shrugs.
Which is why, on a recent date night, I said in all seriousness to my husband, "Honey, I think we need to act a little more divorced".
ON the blog Mrs. O, fans of Michelle Obama's style can view photos of the outfit she wore on a recent date with the president-elect and find out where to buy the same purple designer coat.
"Why do I want to start with some bimbette who doesn't understand my life?" Mr. Barta said, recalling a recent date with a buxom skeet shooter who got sick to her stomach and ran out the door when the plastic tongue of the Russian hog mounted on his living-room wall fell out of the animal and onto her lap.
Finally, there's a 'Recent Dates' section.
I remember complaining to a dear friend about a recent dating fiasco and she said, "You know, as long as I have known you, you have been trying to find a partner.
We recruited an online sample of over 200 participants who provided us with their messages from a recent dating conversation and identified the lies, with some participants explaining why these messages were deceptive and not jokes.
To make a post come before another give it a more recent date.
The implementation of a systematic human-centred design approach is of a more recent date.
