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On the current day or date. examples
In the current era; nowadays. quotations examples
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70
plural todays
A current day or date. quotations examples
Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …
1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish
(informal or meteorology) From 6am to 6pm on the current day.
The present time period; nowadays. examples
(informal) Current; up to date. quotations examples
Actually, it's more like the blues. It's pop blues. I feel it's very American. It's very today. It's what people respond to today.
1965, Tom Wolfe, quoting Phil Spector, “The First Tycoon of Teen”, in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 67
[…] she (Françoise Hardy) is so today, so white boots and yé-yé, that she can make anyone over 25 (me) feel prehistoric, raccoon coat and rah-rah.
1966 December 18, Joan Barthel, “Francoise from France: White Boots and Ye-Ye”, in The New York Times