nowadays
Use Nowadays in a sentence
əˌdeɪz adverb
1.
at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
noun
2.
the present: The kitchens of nowadays are much more efficient than when I was a boy.
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Nowadays
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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Word Origin & History
nowadays
late 15c., contracted from M.E. nou A dayes (mid-14c.), from now + adayes "during the day," with adverbial genitive.
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Example sentences
But nowadays they can read the same reports their doctors do, contemporaneously.
Almost everyone who travels nowadays takes a camera with them and takes some pictures.
Nowadays the world is but a township, and time as well as space are as though they were not.
Maximizing space in overcrowded cities is a key value in construction projects nowadays.
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