this day and age
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3.5
- idiom
:
hoy en día
- In this day and age, technology plays a crucial role in our daily lives.
And it's we live in this, this day and age of social media where it's like people's comments shouldn't matter, but we're we're human.
- And it's we live in this, this day and age of social media where it's like people's comments shouldn't matter, but we're we're human.
- And I think in this day and age, we're all in such a hurry, you know?
- And in this day and age, it happens more and more.
- You know, at this day and age, you know, and you and I both know this, not very many people are left in this world that take initiative.
- So those old tricks, they don't always stick around, you know, in this day and age when films changing so fast.
- So we're flooded with choices in in this day and age.
- They're the only criminals who take the time to write a note in this day and age when we're just moving so fast.
- So if you don't have a Shopify business, you should get one honestly, in this day and age.
- And those of us who have children in this day and age, I think we can't help but coddling them too much.
Examples
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So, more than half of all new relationships are started online in this day and age.
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You can't be too careful in this day and age.
Fiction book (1993) -
Great advice for this day and age, now more than ever.
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And in this day and age, it happens more and more.
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And I think in this day and age, more than ever, people do both.
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I do think in this day and age, live and let live.
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But in this day and age, it sets the child up for problems.
Fiction book (1999) -
And now in this day and age, the entrepreneur is cool.
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Because it's so important in this day and age where people are forgetting things rapidly.
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So I still think in this day and age, memorization still matters.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
The time we are living in now
287
1.0
The time that is happening now
267
1.3
At the present time rather than in the past
48
3.8
The present time, especially compared with the past
29
3.4
The present time when people share common ideas and ways of life
16
3.1
The time now with the common ideas and ways people live
15
3.1
The recent period of history from the Industrial Revolution to today
4
1.0
The present moment when something is happening
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines the demonstrative 'this' with two time nouns ('day' and 'age') to indicate the present time, so its meaning 'the present era/nowadays' is directly inferable from the constituent words. Although formulaic, the compositional logic is straightforward and cross‑linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will likely understand it.
Etymology
The phrase this day and age puts two time words together: day (a single day) and age (a long time). Picture someone pointing to both today and the wider time they live in to mean 'the present time', so the phrase is used when we compare now with the past.