Adverb

(en adverb)

At this moment, at present, now.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}

Adverb

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* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Agnes C. Laut, title=The Freebooters of the Wilderness, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Oh, A know vera well, we've no time for an old or a new dispensation nowdays . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Edward Noyes Westcott, title=David Harum, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I s'pose if the gen'ral run of trotters never got better 'n three 'n a half that a hoss that c'd do it in three 'd be fast, but we don't call 'em so nowdays . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1876, author=Pansy, title=Four Girls at Chautauqua, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He didn't know any more than little mites of Sunday-school children do nowdays . }}