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▸ adjective: (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
▸ adjective: (archaic, law) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
▸ adverb: At the present time.
▸ adverb: (sentential) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
▸ adverb: Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
▸ adverb: At the time reached within a narration.
▸ adverb: Used to indicate a context of urgency.
▸ adverb: (informal) At the present point of a recurring cycle or event.
▸ adverb: (obsolete) As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
▸ adverb: Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before. (In this usage, now is usually emphasized).
▸ adverb: Sometimes; occasionally.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The present time.
▸ noun: (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
▸ noun: (countable, chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
▸ verb: Misspelling of know. [(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.]
▸ noun: (US) Acronym of National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization.
▸ noun: (US, finance) Acronym of negotiable order of withdrawal (“an instrument similar to a check”).
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nowadays,
right away,
today,
instantly,
forthwith,
at once,
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directly,
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