Used to intensify or dramatize non-figurative statements.
Word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
Used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually, so to speak (often considered incorrect; see usage notes)
Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
Used to indicate a context of urgency.
Sometimes; occasionally.
Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before. (In this usage, now is usually emphasized).
At the present time.
At the time reached within a narration.
Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
The present time.
A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.
Indicates a signal to begin.
Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
Present; current.