these days
English
Adverb
these days (not comparable)
- Currently, at present.
- These days everyone can make a movie using their mobile phone, which we didn't use to be able to do.
- 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
- However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
Usage notes
Normally said when comparing to habitual things in the past (in those days)
Synonyms
- nowadays
Derived terms
- one of these days
Translations
currently
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