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"now" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often currently (9 letters).
Definitions
At the present time
Word origin
From Middle English nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu (“now”), from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Doublet of nu ("well?").
Used in a sentence
“[…] to my now wife Mabell, my child Elisabeth, & my child now begotten, &c., and they to be joint Exõrs, & if all die, then the same jointly to my brother William Every & my sisters Sarah Skibbowe & Joan Brice.”
“Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites.”
“Where in assumpsit for money lent, the defendant pleaded that in an action in which the now defendant was plaintiff, and the now plaintiff was defendant,[…].”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer7 curated clues
01“At present”3 letters
02“At the moment”3 letters
03“At this moment”3 letters
04“Current moment”3 letters
05“This instant”3 letters
06“This very moment”3 letters
07“This moment”3 letters
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