nowadays
adverb
now·a·days
ˈnau̇-(ə-)ˌdāz 
: at the present time
People don't wear hats much nowadays.
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People don't wear hats much nowadays.
nowadays it's rare for people to carry cash when they can pay by other methods
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Audiences are much more sophisticated nowadays.
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Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2025
Greenlighting a project like this— a romantic comedy based off of an original spec script—seems like such a rarity nowadays.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 10 Dec. 2025
Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri found the trauma plot especially galling in FNAF2, since that’s what every horror movie is about nowadays.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2025
That tech was advanced for its time, but nowadays, the wide-screen format doesn’t stand out as much.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
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Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2025
Greenlighting a project like this— a romantic comedy based off of an original spec script—seems like such a rarity nowadays.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 10 Dec. 2025
Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri found the trauma plot especially galling in FNAF2, since that’s what every horror movie is about nowadays.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2025
That tech was advanced for its time, but nowadays, the wide-screen format doesn’t stand out as much.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for nowadays
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nowadays
adverb
now·a·days
ˈnau̇-(ə-)ˌdāz
: at the present time
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