Adverb

(en adverb)

At this moment, at present, now.

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Adverb

(-)

In the end.

* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage ,

It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

(mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.