Now
//naʊ//
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The word "now" can be used as adverb, adverb, noun, adjective, verb, proper noun, intj and conjunction.
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3DNow! all together now any day now any minute now any moment now any time now anytime now as of now benow by now don't look now eternal now even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then every now and again every now and then for now good now how now in the here and now just now now I've heard everything now I've seen everything now a days now and again now and then now for now hear this now now now on now or never now that now that you mention it now that's what I call now then now there's a thought now we're talking now what now you mention it now you tell me now you're cooking now you're talking now, now now-a-days now-adays now-now now-nowism now-or-never nowadays nowcast nowcasting nowdoc nowish nowness real soon now right now speak now or forever hold your peace ta ta for now ta-ta for now tata for now that was then that was then and this is now that was then, this is now the future is now then and now then-and-now there now this is now up to now what now
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adjective and then asap at moment at present at time backwards because before before later begin circumstance current current time currently definition differently event fashionable future happening happing hear hear and here here and immediacy immediate immediately in present inheritance later later then moment national national organization organization past period popular present present moment present time presently reference right right away right current right currently right here right present signal since situation stat temporal temporal definition then then and time time period time reference timely timing today up to date urgency what what happing will women won won backwards yet
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