as in now
at the present time nowadays it's rare for people to carry cash when they can pay by other methods

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Recent Examples of nowadays Nathanson estimates that nowadays the subscriber count is at 9.4 million. Brad Adgate, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025 Sedona, Arizona 122 miles from Phoenix, Arizona; 350 miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico The desert town got its Dark Sky designation in 2014, and nowadays offers an array of distinct destinations, coined the Secret 7, for optimal stargazing. Regan Stephens, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025 As a result, HDDs have nowadays been reduced to a secondary role in the consumer storage market. PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025 The amount of cash Aut managed to steal is a rarity nowadays. Michael Loria, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nowadays
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Adverb
  • Tickets for Good Night, and Good Luck are now on sale.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The country now relies on an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout. Bangladesh, also home to a major garment industry, faces 37% tariffs on its exports to the US, a move expected to strain its economy.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Maybe some of them also really didn’t want to be polite to minorities anymore.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In other words, culture isn’t being built by all-hands meetings anymore—it’s being built in the feedback loops of your AI systems.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The duo is currently in the studio with producer Julian Raymond working on their debut project slated for release later this year.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The California state legislature will vote on a bill that would ban biological males from girls' sports in the state, as the state is currently one of the nation's biggest hotbeds for controversial incidents involving trans athletes.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025

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