Almost
Almost adverb - Very close to but not completely.
These days and almost are semantically related. In some cases you can use "These days" instead an adverb "Almost".
These days
Almost and these days are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Almost" instead an adverb phrase "These days".
Both terms in one sentence
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Similarly, it's also almost unthinkable these days to play a shooter without a "Horde"-inspired 'endless waves of enemies' mode.
Source: Video Game / Gears of War -
These days, Jewish characters are almost guaranteed to be lawyers, doctors, accountants and other educated, white-collar professionals, and "Jewish" almost a tongue-in-cheek synonym for "good at his job".
Source: Once Acceptable Targets -
You might still see it on Iceland-brand milk bottles, but otherwise this is almost never seen anymore in real life, and hardly ever done seriously in fiction these days.
Source: Dead Horse Trope
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