in this day and age
Definition
› at the present time: You can't afford to run businesses inefficiently in this day and age.Now
(Definition of in this day and age from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- About to happen
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- Continue & last
- Continuous & permanent
- Days & times of day
- Days, & parts of the week
- Decades, centuries & the millennium
- Describing age & birthdays
- Describing people who are old
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- Describing when something happened or will happen
- Early
- Finished & over
- Frequency & regularity - general words
- Immediately
- In the future & soon
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- Lasting for a long time
- Late
- Long periods of time
- Modern & fashionable
- Names of months
- New
- Old or old-fashioned
- Pauses & interludes
- Periods of time - general words
- Physically and mentally mature & immature
- Points in time
- Rarely & infrequently
- Relating to regular periods of time
- Relating to time
- Schedules & agendas
- Short in time
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- Spending time & time passing
- Stages & phases
- Stages of life
- Temporary
- The seasons
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Synonyms and related words:
- contemporary adjective (EXISTING NOW)
- day noun
- even adverb (SURPRISE)
- existing adjective
- here adverb
- hereupon adverb
- just adverb (NOW)
- now adverb (AT PRESENT)
- nowadays adverb
- ongoing adjective
- present adjective (NOW)
- present noun (NOW)
- present-day adjective
- prevailing adjective
- right adverb (EXACTLY)
- there's no time like the present idiom
- this minute idiom
- time noun (PERIOD)
- today adverb, noun
- topical adjective (HAPPENING NOW)
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