What's the difference between now and nowadays?

Now


Definition:

  • (adv.) At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.
  • (adv.) Very lately; not long ago.
  • (adv.) At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to.
  • (adv.) In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation.
  • (a.) Existing at the present time; present.
  • (n.) The present time or moment; the present.

Example Sentences:

Nowadays


Definition:

  • (adv.) In these days; at the present time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) D. latum infection has been an uncommon intestinal parasitosis, but it tends to increase nowadays.
  • (2) Nowadays hardly a publication comes out of the regulator without it laying down another "matter for government".
  • (3) Nowadays, many of the core welfare state functions have been devolved to the Scottish parliament.
  • (4) Nowadays, conventional cholecystectomy remains indicated when laparoscopy is contra-indicated, notably in cases with tight peritoneal adhesions precluding laparoscopy.
  • (5) However, certain principles should not be disputed, since nowadays there is hardly any doubt as to their validity.
  • (6) The treatment nowadays can depend largely on the results gained by computerized tomography.
  • (7) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
  • (8) We think therefore that meningiomas of the cavernous sinus should nowadays be the subject of a surgical biopsy followed by radiotherapy according to their grading.
  • (9) Nowadays, electro-oculography remains the only clinical method for ocular movement recording which is largely used in daily practise, but it has many drawbacks and limits.
  • (10) - Functional disturbances of the kidneys and of the upper urinary tract can nowadays be demonstrated early and carefully by means of the isotope nephrography.
  • (11) In the past Tularemia has largely affected animals, nowadays' in our country it could become actual one more because of wild animals repopulation actuated in many areas.
  • (12) People from all countries nowadays go through a vetting process, particularly from parts of the worlds where there is political instability and violence, and are thoroughly checked.
  • (13) Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta keeps on being nowadays a diagnostic problem, although it is a well known entity.
  • (14) BCG revaccination was given formerly to 20% of the age cohort but nowadays only 6% or 2% meet the criteria after receiving either Copenhagen or Glaxo BCG at birth.
  • (15) On the contrary, the fact that fewer people use a landline will in time prove challenging to phone polling (even if nowadays a proportion of the sample is interviewed by mobile phone), especially as internet polling is cheaper, so more data can be collected, and panels become increasingly representative of a population as they grow in size.
  • (16) The conspiratorially-minded might see Ed Miliband's decision to issue his own statement of support through one of his special advisers rather than directly to camera as proof that perhaps he was nowadays a little less committed to Brown's leadership than in the past.
  • (17) However, these favourable results are nowadays of importance for the patients concerned only then, when the diagnosis myocardial infarction or the tentative diagnosis infarction are made in a short period and already prehospitally adequate measures are begun.
  • (18) Also nowadays twin pregnancy is a risk pregnancy with a 2.3 fold higher perinatal mortality compared with singleton pregnancy in our matched-pair-group.
  • (19) To prolong the expected lifetime of pacemakers, more and more pulse generators with reduced output and electrodes with high impedance are used nowadays.
  • (20) Nowadays hard attacks have been launched by the media against the use of dental silver amalgams.

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