our time

noun

: the present period of time
He is one of the greatest actors of our time.

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Two seasons ago, Ashley brought in the Sesame Street character known as Deborah, who spent a year entertaining comparisons to Grover and Cookie Monster after wasting all of our time with silly conspiracies involving the perpetually underemployed Chris Bassett. Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025 Content is infinite, but our time is not. Richard Stengel, Time, 24 Nov. 2025 Our family growing up didn’t waste our time with a cranberry sauce no one may like anyway. Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2025 The goal has always been to merge sneaker culture with traditional shoemaking, a dialectic that Lester and I live out every day splitting our time between West NYC and Tip Top Shoes. Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 17 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for our time

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“Our time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/our%20time. Accessed 13 Dec. 2025.

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