Lately (8)
I believe the answer is:
recently
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">lately</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I know that lately can be written as recently)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for recently that I've seen before include "Adverb meaning not long ago" , "Not so long since" , "In the near past" , "Of late" , "Lately" .)