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contemporaries

NOUN
generation
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
age crop microgeneration
WEAK
Beat Generation Gen X Gen Y Gen Z Generation A Generation X Generation Y Generation Z Lost Generation Millennials Silent Generation Xennials baby boomers boomers sandwich generation


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Those things could be left to his contemporaries.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

Rollins survived virtually all of his contemporaries from the 1950s and ’60s, the period in which the fundamental elements of the contemporary jazz that followed for the next half-century were established.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

It is an influence felt by his contemporaries down the divisions, as Karl Robinson admitted when his Oxford United side faced Guardiola at Manchester City two seasons in succession in the Carabao Cup.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

His contemporaries knew what they had lost; they processed through the streets of Rome in mourning and buried him in the Pantheon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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