contemporary
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4.3
- noun
- /kənˈtɛmpəˌrɛri/
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contemporáneo
- True, a large number of his contemporaries were impressive in their way.
- many of his contemporaries
- predecessors and contemporaries
My book will find an audience among his contemporaries.
- My book will find an audience among his contemporaries.
- I mean, he he's kind of your contemporary.
- It was run by Gordon Welchman, Turing's near contemporary at Cambridge.
- Truly the people that I most admire for their creativity and storytelling that are my contemporaries, friends, acquaintances.
- It's Hegel talking to his contemporaries.
- So her contemporaries were Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner in the true greats of comedy.
- And in both cases, it's slightly, they were reading so much that it's slightly cut them off from their contemporaries.
- And something also about what the what her contemporaries felt about her poetry.
- And we also have this issue of contemporaries.
- You're you're more contemporaries like me and my buddy Jon Batiste, right?
Examples
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My contemporaries are scions of industry.
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Hutcheson's moral doctrine, in its extreme form, was rejected by most of his contemporaries as incredible.
Academic text (1991) -
And what of your contemporaries?
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You start out expecting something much more, and some of your contemporaries achieve it.
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I have to share my discoveries with my contemporaries.
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Darwin himself was a near contemporary of Dickens.
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William Stuckey, Edward's contemporary, is a crafty-looking lawyer who is the party host.
Fiction book (1990) -
For Darwin and his contemporaries, there was a stark question of analogy: what was nature like?
Academic text (1999) -
So her contemporaries were Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner in the true greats of comedy.
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Many of my contemporaries in the art world share similar techniques and themes in their work.
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Etymology
The word contemporary comes from the Latin parts con- 'with' and tempor 'time'. So a contemporary (noun) is someone who lives 'at the same time' as another person.