these days
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Currently, at present.
- Near-synonyms: now, lately, recently
- These days everyone can make a movie using their mobile phone, which we didn't use to be able to do.
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- I don’t play snooker a lot these days.
- 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.1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
- 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.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- Derived terms
- is that what the kids are calling it these days?, one of these days
- Related terms
- latter-day, latterday, recent memory