Almost
Almost adverb - Very close to but not completely.
Only now
Both terms in one sentence
- When he goes 5 years into the future, he finds almost the same conditions as before, only now it's Darkseid who's taken over.
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Only now, almost a decade afterwards with 4Kids long dead and Funimation in possession of distribution rights, is the damage being reversed.
Source: Audience-Alienating Premise - Inverted by Caligula of The Law of Purple; instead of an advanced culture that once had religion but derides it as worthless now, there was almost never any organized religion to speak of and parts of the population are only now discovering it.
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Only now or Almost. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/almost/only_now.
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