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contemporaneous

adjective as in contemporary

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According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.

From Slate

Goldberg published a piece in The Atlantic on Tuesday with some new revelations about Trump's disdain for the military, quoting from witnesses and contemporaneous notes about an episode in which Trump exploded over the cost of a funeral for a service member which he'd promised to help pay for:

From Salon

They also cast a wide net in terms of written material, drawing from books and contemporaneous press accounts.

Here’s the problem: Contemporaneous notes, uncovered years later, reflect prosecutors’ knowledge that Sneed was lying.

From Slate

The Franco-Prussian War or the Italian wars of unification were roughly contemporaneous with the American Civil War, yet the former events are largely relegated to academic works, whereas the latter continues to create an unending flood of popular overviews, biographies and unit histories — with Abraham Lincoln being the most written-about figure in American history.

From Salon

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