contemporaneous

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The first is the dread of contemporaneous discovery, which is no problem if a donor arranges for his or her diary to be sealed until the people in it are dead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

If the trust was never executed, no loan documents were signed, and no contemporaneous bank records confirm the transfer, your brother may have engaged in “unjust enrichment,” which can affect both liability and limitation periods.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 2, 2026

He said the paper had produced "no contemporaneous record or corroborating evidence to support these disputed recollections from nearly 50 years ago".

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

The problem, as scholars such as Jerry Lembcke have shown, is that there is almost no contemporaneous evidence of such hostility.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2025

It is a thousand years old, roughly contemporaneous with a report of an organ at Winchester Cathedral that boasted an extraordinary four hundred pipes.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall