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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nowadays
adv
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): nowadays, now, today
n
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): present, nowadays
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nowadays \Now"a*days`\, adv. [For now on (OE. an) days. See
      {A-}, 1.]
      In these days; at the present time.
  
               What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober
               judgment of new plays ?                           --Garrick.
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