nunc
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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As is almost always the case with O, it wasn’t necessary: he’d had the definition exactly right in the first place: nunc dimittis is “the final song in a religious service”.
From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2017
Sed posuere, nunc eu cursus mattis, nisi felis varius dolor, nec lacinia nisl ex a sem.
From Forbes • Apr. 23, 2015
The resignation was made nunc pro tunc or “now for later”--to be dealt with when the pope had time for such matters.
From Newsweek • Feb. 25, 2013
Et nunc ecce messis Hoc longo militia obfuscation.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
"Scriptus es �terno nunc primum, Jupiter, auro, Et soror, et summi filia tota patris."
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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