Sentence:  Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (<WSD>yesterday</WSD>, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The recent past, often disparaging.