contemporaries

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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

Rollins had never been perceived to be the single most influential or glamorous artist of his generation but, as he gradually outlived all of his most accomplished contemporaries, his genius came into even sharper relief.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

In fact, it’s got more pop DNA than many of its contemporaries — just don’t expect the intricacies to come from Mother Mary’s music or her mythology.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

The obscurity condemned by Johnson derives in part from Shakespeare’s readiness to draw on vocabulary that would have struck even his contemporaries as bewilderingly nonstandard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

The money also meant that Boyle could, unlike many of his contemporaries, get his own books published at his own expense, ensuring that they appeared promptly, in properly printed editions.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin