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now that

Idioms  
  1. Seeing that, since, as in Now that you're here, you might as well stay for dinner. This usage was first recorded in 1530. For a synonym, see as long as.


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“We are at a precipice right now that if you say to your employees there’s not gonna be any job disruption, I think you lose all credibility—because all of them get it that there’s going to be,” Schulman said in a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now that Operation Epic Fury is under way, everyone - lawmakers in Congress, US allies, Iran - want to know how long it will last, and how big it might be.

From BBC

He had asked Justice Department lawyer Mary Larakers: “Is your position that the Government can decide right now that someone who is in their custody is getting deported to a third country, give them no notice and no opportunity to say, ‘I will be killed the moment I arrive there,’ and, as long as the Department doesn’t already know that there’s someone standing there waiting to shoot him, that that’s fine?”

From Slate

The move saves “her heirs a significant amount in capital-gains tax now that they are not concerned about estate-tax exemption levels,” Boothroyd says.

From Barron's

“Now that the estate tax isn’t an issue, they put little bit more of a premium on the step-up in basis,” he says.

From Barron's