nowadays

CEFRA2

/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/

adverb

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Beef is expensive nowadays.
Cars nowadays are more efficient.
Me-thinkes miſtreſſe, you ſhould haue little reaſon for that: and yet to ſay the truth, reaſon and loue keepe little company together, now-adayes.

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Me-thinkes miſtreſſe, you ſhould haue little reaſon for that: and yet to ſay the truth, reaſon and loue keepe little company together, now-adayes.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Origin...
What is it that now adayes makes all our quarrells mortall?
1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Cowardize, the Mother of Crueltie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, pag...
And in his spare moments, of which there were not many nowadays, he would go alone to the quarry, collect a load of broken stone, and drag it down to the site of the windmill unassisted.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 50
'Cause everybody's happy nowadays / Everybody's happy nowadays
1979, “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays”, performed by Buzzcocks
My favourite reading nowadays is Pulse, one of the house magazines for GPs.
2012 June 11, Dick Vinegar, “What makes doctors tick?”, in The Guardian

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