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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Prior to 2004, this whiskey was known as Old Rip Van Winkle 15, and nowadays the whiskey is made entirely from Buffalo Trace distillate as the Stitzel-Weller juice for this ran out years ago.
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026
A lot of the archaeological evidence for this sits to the east of the strait, in the Bay of Algeciras, also known as the Bay of Gibraltar — a stopping-off point for transatlantic shipping, nowadays mainly of oil.
—Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
No discussion of Hammond nowadays is complete without mentioning the city’s plan to build a stadium for the Chicago Bears.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Yes, nowadays, this idea of everything being interconnected is very popular again, both in the ecological sense and in the technological sense.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2026
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2026
A lot of the archaeological evidence for this sits to the east of the strait, in the Bay of Algeciras, also known as the Bay of Gibraltar — a stopping-off point for transatlantic shipping, nowadays mainly of oil.
—Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
No discussion of Hammond nowadays is complete without mentioning the city’s plan to build a stadium for the Chicago Bears.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Yes, nowadays, this idea of everything being interconnected is very popular again, both in the ecological sense and in the technological sense.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2026
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Musk fires back at OpenAI attorney watch now Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
2 May 2026
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Subscribe now for immediate access to the latest issue and to browse the rich archive.—
The New York Review of Books,
The New York Review of Books,
2 May 2026
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Two women working in a gift store, who again asked not to be named, told CNN that very few customers walk in anymore.—
Zahra Ullah,
CNN Money,
2 May 2026
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The difference is that humans don’t have to sit at a keyboard anymore to write code and can instead use AI to do it.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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The shoes are available on resale sites in red, but Prada is currently offering them in blue, burgundy and brown for $1,270.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
1 May 2026
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Crew-12 will join Expedition 74 crew members currently aboard the space station.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 May 2026
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“Nowadays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nowadays. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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