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UK
/nˈaʊədˌeɪz/
]
[ US /ˈnaʊəˌdeɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈnaʊəˌdeɪz/ ]
NOUN
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the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech
he lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow
that is enough for the present
ADVERB
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in these times
we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets
today almost every home has television
it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished
How To Use nowadays In A Sentence
- Nowadays she heats her place with a cast-iron stove perched on firebricks in the living room, cooks with propane, and does her beadwork at night by the light of a kerosene lamp while listening to a battery-operated radio.
- She tended to sleep lightly nowadays .
- The manufacturers just don't strive to achieve a mirror-like polish nowadays.
- Go into just about every boulangerie in France nowadays and a standard baguette costs 80 centimes.
- But then, the Tea Council represents the trade and 93 per cent of British cuppas nowadays come from bags.
- Nowadays the word jabberwocky is used to mean nonsensical language in general. †"V Venkata Rao, Ahmedabad The Times of India
- We are particularly interested in the potential of specialisation and disaggregation, nowadays increasingly utilised by better banks worldwide.
- June 17th, 2006 at 12:05 am just popping in on way to bed … my first french textbook was written by Eugene Ionesco … provided me with a most shall we say surreal vocabulary complete with the wonderful word “bathyscape” … nowadays my vocabulary consists of de rien and alors! with an occasional mon petit chouchou thrown in. Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Waiting for Wankette
- Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.
- Nowadays, the standard unit of frequency is known as the hertz, abbreviated Hz. Thus, 1 Hz.¼ 1 cps, 10 Hz.¼ Recently Uploaded Slideshows
