contemporary
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He only scraped into the prestigious Magnum Agency in the 1990s due to opposition from some of his contemporaries, and he often felt his work and photography in general was under-appreciated in Britain.
From Barron's
“These tactics — if you call them that — are far and away out of touch with contemporary policing standards.”
From Los Angeles Times
Her contemporary approach blends intimate ballads with hip-hop beats and assertive attitude, while she leans further than some in the direction of jazzy soul.
The two contemporaries were promoted as part of a vast overhaul of creative director positions in the European luxury clothing sector in the last 12 months.
From Barron's
What Thompson-Hernández’s art so easily dispels, no matter the genre it finds a home in, are all the knotty, misguided and trite representations of otherness in our contemporary world.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
