Word Finder - now

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The present time.

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Now is the right time.

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(often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.

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She is living in the now.

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• here and now

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(chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.

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Present; current.

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Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.

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I think this band's sound is very now.

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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.

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Now wife.

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At the present time.

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Now I am six.

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(sentence) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.

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Now stop that, Jimmy!

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Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.

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Now I am ready.

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Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.

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Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet.

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At the time reached within a narration.

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He now asked her whether she had made pudding.

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In the context of urgency.

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Now listen, we must do something about this.

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As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.

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Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.

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Now that we're all here, let's start the meeting.

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Indicates a signal to begin.

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Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!