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- noun Plural form of
now .
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Examples
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The ordinary conception of time is taken by Heidegger to 'cover up' the character of temporality as a mode of Dasein's existence, by reducing it to 'a sequence of "nows" which are constantly "present-at-hand", simultaneously passing away and coming along' in an uninterrupted flow, as if they existed externally to one another and independently of Dasein.
enowning enowning 2009
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The ordinary conception of time is taken by Heidegger to 'cover up' the character of temporality as a mode of Dasein's existence, by reducing it to 'a sequence of "nows" which are constantly "present-at-hand", simultaneously passing away and coming along' in an uninterrupted flow, as if they existed externally to one another and independently of Dasein.
Archive 2009-07-01 enowning 2009
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These series of 'nows' really only begin to matter when they change what will be, or become memories of what was.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2006
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It is also important to remember as you progress through this book and discover the more negative affects of what has happened in the past, that you realize that Soul exists in eternity, and, as all of us must do in overcoming adversity in our lives, we must look at these events as a part of the endless series of "nows" in which we really have existence.
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A hard one to grasp for English-speakers used to their "nows" in the present or recent past.
rediff.com 2010
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Your the one that says it shouldnt be, its up to you to prove why and I dont any of the political punditry that was silent then but not nows rhetoric.
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All nows exist simultaneously, although we can only listen to the songs one by one.
Why You Will Always Exist: Time Is 'On Demand' M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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I can cram anything I want down this lonely misfits mouth and it will accept it because I own it and it nows it.
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She wishes she cood adop the kitteh wot yuo feetcherd beefor (and uvver Nigerian kittehs wot she was hoping to adop, wot yuo nows abowt) but the impawtashun lors to da yookay am so strikt it wood be too krool for da kittehs, so ...
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Tis iz stoopid, ever one nows that alle of Yureuop is notheng butt gay communiests.
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