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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There’s a broader story to tell these days about the urgent removal of financial guardrails and the gradual buildup of structural excesses now underway: Congress is greenlighting stablecoins and blessing crypto-ownership expansions.
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Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 July 2025
The joke is so-so, resting upon a neologism that wryly riffs on an adjective recurrent within so much American news media these days: the unprecedented funding of ICE, the unprecedented abuse of executive power, the unprecedented complicity of the courts.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
With the injury bug devouring the Yankees’ bullpen, Tim Hill is working a lot more these days.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 July 2025
Unfortunately, the story of the studio that evolved from the one that originally made Descent ended sadly, as is so often the case for classic studios these days.
—ArsTechnica, 25 July 2025
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Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 July 2025
The joke is so-so, resting upon a neologism that wryly riffs on an adjective recurrent within so much American news media these days: the unprecedented funding of ICE, the unprecedented abuse of executive power, the unprecedented complicity of the courts.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 26 July 2025
With the injury bug devouring the Yankees’ bullpen, Tim Hill is working a lot more these days.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 July 2025
Unfortunately, the story of the studio that evolved from the one that originally made Descent ended sadly, as is so often the case for classic studios these days.
—ArsTechnica, 25 July 2025
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“These days.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/these%20days. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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