Extant and Now

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Extant adjective - Having being at the present time.

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Now and extant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Now" instead an adjective "Extant".

Now adjective - Keenly aware of and responsive to the latest developments especially in fashion and entertainment.

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Extant and now are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Extant" instead an adjective "Now".

The now-extinct Great Auk was the original penguin and is a flightless member of the family Alcidae, which also includes extant species such as auklets and puffins.

Source: Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
All those jokes making fun of Cosmo and Wanda's marriage, (and, to a lesser extant, Timmy's Parents' marriage) are this now that Daran Norris's own marriage with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn ended in a divorce.

Source: Harsher In Hindsight / Western Animation
Though no individual, and no nation now extant, could afford such a sum, the price was not exorbitant.

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