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
Ecclesiam Catholicam Romanam optime a mediocris Bavari bureaucrat semel tasked cum concelamento foedissimis iniquitatem, cuius ineptitudinem in illa job nunc ostendit eo ad nos sicut homo personaliter et professionally responsible pro enabling sordida unda sceleris.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
And the people, with one voice, replied: "Ex hoc et nunc et in seculum."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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