by now

Anglais

Étymologie

 Composé de by et de now.

Locution adverbiale

by now \Prononciation ?\

1. Déjà.
   • The idea of a “virtual reality” such as the Metaverse is by now widespread in the computer-graphics community and is being implemented in a number of different ways. — (Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (éd. 1993), ISBN 0-553-56262-4 )

Synonymes

• already
• yet