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nowadays

[nou-uh-deyz]

adverb

  1. at the present day; in these times.

    Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.



noun

  1. the present.

    The kitchens of nowadays are much more efficient than when I was a boy.

nowadays

/ ˈԲʊəˌɪ /

adverb

  1. in these times

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nowadays1

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English nou adaies; now, a- 1, day, -s 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nowadays1

C14: from now + adays from Old English a on + æ genitive of day
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Various theories have been posited as to what could have caused the crash in Ahmedabad, but one pilot I spoke to said that nowadays it's rare for a manufacturer fault to cause a fatal incident.

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“It’s part of the culture nowadays in the major leagues, as far as kind of having optionable players and kind of having guys in and out of clubhouses,” he said.

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Which nowadays makes it hard for them to compete for landscape space when our nursery shelves are brimming with eye-popping non-native plants with flowers so gaudy they look plastic.

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Is it any wonder that city council meetings nowadays easily dissolve into even more municipal desmadre?

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It is just people in the world that are more stubborn nowadays and they get frustrated there is not an overtake.

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