No, "as of" can mean both - 1) As of today, only three survivors have been found. 2) As of today, all passengers must check their luggage before boarding the plane.

Oct 31, 2011ย ยท 14 Nowadays and today are both perfectly acceptable. You could also say these days, in recent times and at present or presently. If your teacher prefers that you don't use nowadays I would โ€ฆ

Dec 12, 2016ย ยท In my town, people with PhD's in education use the terms, "on today" and "on tomorrow." I have never heard this usage before. Every time I hear them say it, I wonder if it is correct to use the โ€ฆ

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Feb 15, 2021ย ยท [6] now yesterday today tomorrow this morning tonight last night tomorrow night last week next week two days ago in two weeks in a week's time these days in earlier times The temporal โ€ฆ

3 โ€œEarlier todayโ€ is a totally correct way to refer to a point in time between the beginning of the day and the current time. Because it refers to a moment in the past, it can be used with the past tense, as you โ€ฆ

Today means "the current day", so if you're asking what day of the week it is, it can only be in present tense, since it's still that day for the whole 24 hours. In other contexts, it's okay to say, for example, โ€ฆ

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