Nowadays and Previous

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Nowadays adverb - At the present time.

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Previous is an antonym for nowadays in existing topic.

Nearby Word: nowaday

Previous adjective - Going before another in time or order.

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Nowadays is an antonym for previous.

Nearby Word: previously

This was a vast improvement over previous years, when Army airpower was run by two separate organizations, the Army Air Corps and GHQ Air Force, which operated in parallel (GHQ had very few planes, and it's honestly hard to tell nowadays exactly what they did.)

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Previous and Nowadays. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/nowadays/previous

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Previous or Nowadays. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/nowadays/previous.

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