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Advanced German Word of the Day

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nach wie vor (adv. phrase)  still (continuing as before, lit. "after as before")

OECD-Studie: Deutsches Bildungssystem nach wie vor mangelhaft.
OECD study: German education system still inadequate. (...remains inadequate.)
Nach wie vor verbreiten die Skinheads ihre hässliche Ideologie.
The skinheads continue to spread their ugly ideology.

Related: nach und nach gradually, bit by bit, little by little, (frei) nach Goethe (freely) adapted from Goethe

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