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today | American Dictionary

today
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/təˈdeɪ/
on this day:
What’s the date today?
We could go today or tomorrow.
Today can also be used more generally to mean now rather than in the past:
People are more worried today than ever before.

today

noun[ U ]us/təˈdeɪ/
Today is even hotter than yesterday!

Examples of today

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The ideal is to reach an equality, a synchronism between today's research and its subject matter.
Questions such as these are not trivial to today's archaeology.
The main principle was to use direct sound and keep the first ref lections within 50m, which conforms with today's design theory.
Despite these developments, today's museologists are by no means united in their ideas about the future of their institutions.
The environments to which we allocate today's teenagers are not, for the most part, designed to promote successful completion of their developmental tasks.
The question of time is also relevant: as we seek more precise knowledge about biological processes, what of today's young?
While today's language critics fault it, our 20th-century grammarians seem happy with the passive as a fact of life.
Therefore, the syntactic drift is well suited to explaining today's general preference for the verb-particle order.
The authors argue that today's modern agricultural systems are not sustainable and do not meet the needs of farmers, consumers or the environment.
Perhaps it is the novelty and depth of today's environmental transformation.
The best practices compared with today's symptomatic treatment could typically reduce the production costs by half.
The best practices compared with today's symptomatic treatment will typically halve the sum of control and damage cost.
In today's politically sensitive climate many educational jurisdictions, mention of musical experience as spiritual is absent from official documents.
The effect is to make the quality of tomorrow's pieces + and hence the utility from tomorrow's consumption + the same as today's.
In this context, there is a growing trend to integrate results from neuroscience and try to correlate them with today's clearer psychiatric classifications.
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