Past, present or future (5)

I believe the answer is:

tense

(Other definitions for tense that I've seen before include "Maybe past" , "Anxious, nervous" , "Rigid; verb form" , "perfect, perhaps" , "under pressure" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal, the USA Today and The New York Times.

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