in this day and age

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

in this day and age

1. (idiomatic) In the current era of history.

   Synonym: nowadays

   • 2025 January 3, Christina Izzo, “Cunk On Life is brilliantly funny (and depressingly timely)”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     In this day and age, our understanding of, well, everything is molded far more by social media than any Socratic questioning.

Translations

nowadays

• Finnish: tätä nykyä (fi)

Further reading

• “in this day and age”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “in this day and age”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.