by now

The tribunal was also meant to contrast with this week’s annual conference of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, which featured climate change and Indigenous issues in a way that speakers described as opportunistic — by now a familiar criticism.

Also, speaking of Saxon, how has Erewhon not announced a ridiculously priced smoothie in his honor by now?

He hoped to be further along than this by now.

By now the people scattered across the beach had started to gather.

We’ve become desensitized to the ritual by now, but slobbering over an elected official—of any stripe—is, and always will be, unbecoming.