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now⋅a⋅days

  [nou-uh-deyz]
Use nowadays in a Sentence
–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.
Origin:
1325–75; ME nou adaies; see now, a- 1 , day, -s 1
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now·a·days   (nou'ə-dāz')   
adv.  During the present time; now.

[Middle English nouadaies : nou, now; see now + a (variant of on, on; see on) + daies, genitive of dai, day; see day.]
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Word Origin & History

nowadays 
1474, contracted from M.E. nou A dayes (1362), from now + adayes "during the day," with adverbial gen.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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