Noun
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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"
Adverb
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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"