these days
idiom
: at the present time
It seems that everyone has a cell phone these days.
What kind of music are you listening to these days?
These days, she has a very busy social life.
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Consider that $10,000 invested in the U.S. stock market in 2000 would be worth about $27,000 these days (in no small part due to exposure to that emerging market growth), while the same sum invested in global equities would yield about $16,000.
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Radu Magdin, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
What’s your relationship with your body these days?
—Danielle Pergament, Allure, 2 Jan. 2025
There is much less farmland and feral fields and much more forested land these days.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2025
Put simply, Young can’t do it all by himself these days.
—John Hollinger, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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Radu Magdin, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
What’s your relationship with your body these days?
—Danielle Pergament, Allure, 2 Jan. 2025
There is much less farmland and feral fields and much more forested land these days.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2025
Put simply, Young can’t do it all by himself these days.
—John Hollinger, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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“These days.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/these%20days. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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