Synonyms for Nowadays
ˈnaʊ əˌdeɪznowa·days

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1. nowadaysadverb

   At the present time; in the current era.

   Synonyms:
   in this day and age, currently, these days, now

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1. present, nowadaysadverb

   the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech

   "that is enough for the present"; "he lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow"

   Synonyms:
   present, present tense, nowadays

2. nowadays, now, todayadverb

   in these times

   "it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television"

   Synonyms:
   at once, straightaway, like a shot, now, directly, straight off, at present, nowadays, immediately, right away, instantly, today, forthwith

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1. nowadaysadjective

   Synonyms:
   in these days, in this age, in the present age

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1. List of paraphrases for "nowadays":

   today, currently, now

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1. Daniel J. Boorstin:

   Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.

2. The Briton:

   It's easy for you to sit and watch the race. I sweat my arse off in that race. I pushed absolutely 100, 1,000 per cent. Every bit of energy I had, i didn't have anything left when I came in. People expect you to get out of the car and wave and smile and all that. I gave everything I could, I was struggling to stand. It's so physical nowadays.

3. Mika Kivimaki:

   An increasing proportion of jobs are nowadays sedentary and it is possible that part of the health effects of working hours relate simply to a higher number of sedentary hours at work.

4. Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting:

   The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

5. Roselinda Akumu:

   Our skills are still recognized because we are the first ones that the mothers see before we take them to hospital, i can still deliver an emergency birth but after that I have to take the mother to hospital where they have better equipment. Things have changed nowadays.