Use the word contemporary in a sentence

Definition of Contemporary

quite recent

Examples of Contemporary in a sentence

While young people tend to prefer contemporary music, the older generation prefers to listen to music from the 1970’s and the 1980’s.

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The art critic who was used to reviewing pieces from the 1930’s and 1940’s did not have anything positive to say about contemporary art.

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As I search for my new home, I am looking for a contemporary property that was built in the last five years.

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Contemporary medicine is much more effective than the medicines produced twenty years ago.

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When my grandmother went furniture shopping, she had no interest in the contemporary pieces and went directly to the pieces that made her think of her upbringing.

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The contemporary restaurant opened last month and utilizes iPads at each table to send orders to the kitchen.

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As a contemporary painter, Edward is always experimenting with new painting styles to inspire his creativity.

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The old bridge is soon to be replaced by a more contemporary crossing.

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When I ordered from the contemporary cuisine menu, I expected something new and exciting, not a plate of fried chicken and macaroni and cheese.

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Contemporary dance is a modern style of dance that focuses on improvisation and fluid movement.

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Synonym: coeval, contemporaneous, modern-day, present-day. Similar words: contemplate, on the contrary, to the contrary, contretemps, context, contest, contend, a bone of contention. Meaning: [kən’tempərərɪ]  n. a person of nearly the same age as another. adj. 1. characteristic of the present 2. belonging to the present time 3. occurring in the same period of time. 

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1. Contemporary accounts attest to his courage and determination.

2. The telephone and the gramophone were contemporary.

3. Contemporary cars are more streamlined than older ones.

4. We have no contemporary account of the battle .

5. Many contemporary writers condemned the emperor’s actions.

6. He was contemporary with the dramatist Congreve.

7. He rubbished most of the novels written by contemporary writers.

8. The wall hangings are thought to be roughly contemporary with the tiled floors.

9. I shall take four different examples from contemporary literature to illustrate my point.

10. In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.

11. The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny.

12. Almost all of the contemporary accounts of the event have been lost.

13. She writes a lot of contemporary music for people like Whitney Houston.

14. She used only strictly contemporary documents to research the book.

15. The museum contains 6,000 contemporary and modern artworks.

16. The exhibition features paintings by contemporary artists.

17. Contemporary arbiters of taste dismissed his paintings as rubbish.

18. He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature.

19. We weren’t out to design a contemporary utopia.

20. John is a contemporary of mine.

21. She patronizes many contemporary British artists.

22. His work is very contemporary.

23. Shakespeare was not contemporary with Dickens.

24. He was in the mainstream of British contemporary music.

25. Was he a contemporary of Shakespeare’s?

26. She is very much alive to contemporary issues.

27. The 16th century house has been renovated and furnished in contemporary style.

28. The author builds up a useful composite picture of contemporary consumer culture.

29. He claims that the laws are antiquated and have no contemporary relevance.

30. Their marriage is a delicate balance between traditional and contemporary values.

More similar words: contemplate, on the contrary, to the contrary, contretemps, context, contest, contend, a bone of contention, literary, temple, import, important, corporate, importantly, incorporate, of importance, corporation, secondary, in proportion to, contain, control, confront, continue, contract, contrast, continent, container, continued, contribute, continuous. 

contemporary — перевод на русский

/kənˈtɛmpərəri/

It’s like another contemporary American phenomenon that’s truly moronic.

Это еще одно поистине идиотское современное американское явление.

Darling, I am looking for something a lot more… contemporary.

— Дорогая, мне нужно нечто гораздо более… современное

Consciously or not, all of them depict contemporary Japanese society… as suffering from the lack of communication and failing human relationships.

Намеренно, или нет, все они изображают современное японское общество страдающим от недостатка общения и разрыва человеческих взаимоотношений.

Before, he depicted contemporary society through glimpses of compulsive cruelty. But, in Sonatine, he created a calm and light-hearted image of a middle-aged gangster, who is prone to violence and unable to find his place among humans, and who ultimately escapes in his own dream world.

Ранее он изображал современное общество через взгляд на импульсивную жестокость, но в «Сонатине» представляет светлый и спокойный образ гангстера средних лет склонного к жестокости, который больше не может найти свое место в обществе и навсегда уходит в мир своих грез.

Only contemporary art?

Только современное искусство?

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What appeal did Pythagoras’ and Plato’s teachings have for their contemporaries?

Что в учениях Пифагора и Платона так привлекало их современников?

The red shift of the distant galaxies seemed to imply to Humason’s contemporaries that we were at the center of an expanding universe that our place in space was somehow privileged.

Красное смещение отдаленных галактик заставило современников Хьюмасона решить, будто мы находимся в центре расширяющейся вселенной, будто наше место в космосе какое-то особенное.

ls it really impossible that our contemporaries would have

Неужели нельзя, чтобы у наших современников были

SHOCKED BY THE CONTEMPT OF HER CONTEMPORARIES, THE AUTHOR FORBID FURTHER PUBLISHING OF HER BOOK UNTIL HER DEATH.

Потрясенная презрением современников, автор не разрешила ни одного переиздания при своей жизни.

To get a sense of this achievement, remember Rutherford and his contemporaries at Cambridge had only a sketchy idea of what an atom was but they did have an idea of its size.

Чтобы понять смысл этого достижения, вспомните, что у Резерфорда и его современников в Кембридже Размер его неизмеримо мал,одна десятая одной миллионной миллиметра в ширину.

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Well, they were contemporaries!

Они были ровесниками!

They were contemporaries.

Они были ровесниками.

That’s the danger of midtown Manhattan… — running across far more successful contemporaries.

В этом опасность манхэттенского мидтауна: здесь встречаешь куда более успешных ровесников.

And yes, I thought having a Mavis contemporary would be useful.

И да, я думал, что было бы полезно привлечь ровесника Мэвис.

A couple of white-haired men and a contemporary who looks like Steve McQueen.

Пару седоволосых мужчин и их ровесник, который выглядит как Стив Маккуин.

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Recent Examples on the Web



The four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath contemporary Cape Cod-style home is listed on Pacaso’s website at $940,000 for a one-eighth share.


Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023





This list of best Easter songs and albums, including favorites performed by contemporary Christian artists, gospel greats, world-renowned choirs, and chart-topping legends (Elvis, Johnny Cash, and Dolly Parton to name a few), is a good place to begin.


Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 29 Mar. 2023





Macknight room Named after the contemporary artist Dodge Macknight, whose watercolors line its walls.


BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023





State Library of New South Wales, Sydney While the outside of the State Library is quite contemporary, the inside is ornate, classic, and very beautiful.


Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2023





For a new-construction find, be sure to look at the contemporary home at 6910 Lockheed Ave.


Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023





On the 50 Best list was Coya Abu Dhabi, located high on top of the Four Seasons Hotel at Al Maryah Island, which serves contemporary Latin American cuisine with east Asian influences.


Chris Dwyer, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023





Only one historical account, written by Italian monk Dominic Mancini in 1483, is contemporary; the rest date to the Tudor era, when chroniclers had a vested interest in legitimizing the current regime and defaming the previous king.


Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023





The resort has a contemporary beach vibe, with some parts feeling distinctly Mediterranean, more of a Santorini than a Middle East look.


Michele Robson, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023




The personal side of Shields’ life is well-documented by an assortment of friends and contemporaries, including Laura Linney, Ali Wentworth and Drew Barrymore.


Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2023





Nengudi and contemporaries David Hammons and Maren Hassinger were among the Black abstractionists of the early 1970s who had grown fed up with Eurocentric ways of making and presenting art.


Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2023





While the story was first inspired by Fleetwood Mac, the cast and crew incorporated rock singers that were in the band’s orbit during the 1970s, with the help and inspiration from more contemporaries than fans might think.


Charna Flam, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023





More than a simple roots collective, Fortuna, Vicioso, and contemporaries such as Luis Días, José Duluc, Irka Mateo, and Roldán Mármol underscored African heritage as inextricable from Dominican culture, a stance that remains controversial to this day.


Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2023





The design is ultra-sleek contemporary.


Lauren Beale, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022





Far from its comparatively primitive contemporaries of teletypes and punch cards, PLATO was something else entirely.


Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2023





Biggest Fighter on the Block By any name, the Phantom was a beast compared to its contemporaries.


Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023





Built from the ground up, the festival has quickly garnered the industry respect and household name status of its much older contemporaries.


Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023



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The term contemporary formation is here taken in the sense attached to it by geologists, in speaking of beds of quartz in clay-slate, granular limestone in mica-slate or feldspar in gneiss. ❋ Unknown (1851)

In the world of competitive dance conventions and, more recently, shows like So You Think You Can Dance, the word «contemporary» has morphed from a simple descriptor to its own quite specific and potentially limiting dance form. ❋ Nora Younkin (2011)

In our not-so-distant past, the word «contemporary» simply meant, «occurring in the present.» ❋ Nora Younkin (2011)

I don’t necessarily know how or why, but somewhere along the line the competitive dance scene think the little girls from Lifetime’s Dance Moms and their high school counterparts hijacked the word «contemporary» from its simple dictionary definition. ❋ Nora Younkin (2011)

This year, ABT invoked the word «contemporary» to describe the season’s works, which included dances from 1979 to this year. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2011)

— ‘Say Yes to No’ is the name of a Minnesota based movement designed to save children from what they define as the contemporary US ‘yes’ culture of self indulgence. ❋ William Harryman (2007)

They were the kind of cutting edge of what we call contemporary Christian music because they were playing rock ‘n roll and talking about their faith. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Dance Moms and their high school counterparts hijacked the word «contemporary» from its simple dictionary definition. ❋ Nora Younkin (2011)

So You Think You Can Dance, the word «contemporary» has morphed from a simple descriptor to its own quite specific and potentially limiting dance form. ❋ Nora Younkin (2011)

A [nice], contemporary [home]. ❋ Jekrmfkod (2021)

«It’s [modern] but not modern modern, [that’s what] contemporary means.»
[Anix] 2021 ❋ Pee Pee Poo Poop (2021)

[Dave] and [Jen] were [contemporaries]. ❋ Kevin (2004)

fuck xb0x get a ps4, fuck cable get netflix. free [edward snowden]. get aware. use [rt].com instead of [yahoo.com] Contemporaries ❋ Just A Person… 4now (2013)

«I kinda wanna [make it fit] with the contemporary style» — [Anix], [March 9th] 2021 ❋ KittenCass924 (2021)

[Anix]: These [contemporary] [seats] look so modern but not modern-modern ❋ Bored_ (2021)

person 1: wow! [look at this] [artwork]
person 2: you call that art? it’s literally [a piece of shit]
person 1: it’s contemporary art ❋ Wagga123 (2013)

«We [lurked out] in the streets for a few hours but then she told me to come over so I came through cause it’s really nothing.»
«I have no idea what you said I am having a hard time [grasping] your [contemporary vernacular].» ❋ GENO (2013)

Adult Contemporary musicians include Celine Dion, Barry Manilow, Enrique Iglesias (early career, now he’s a full blown teeny-bopper musician), Johnny Mathis, Toni Braxton, Josh Groban, Anastacia, Michael Jackson (some of his work), Christina Aguilera, [Andy Williams], [Dusty Springfield], Marc Anthony, Tom Jones, Julio Iglesias, Lionel Richie, Cher, [Shirley Bassey], Michael Buble, Whitney Houston and Bruno Mars. ❋ Five Synonyms (2011)

«Who are those freaks protesting the Feroe Island in [Denmark’s] annual slaughter of [Calderon] dolphins that are [on the list] of extinction that we so carelessly pay little attention too through new and initiative ways?»
«Its those damn contemporary hippies.» ❋ Solarisrenideo (2012)

Learn how to use contemporary in a sentence and make better sentences with `contemporary` by reading contemporary sentence examples.

  • It’s need a more contemporary cover.
  • As deadbolts, they feel elegant yet contemporary in design,.
  • A quick read that is sure to please fans of contemporary women’s fiction.
  • This is a great contemporary young adult novel and I hope that many young readers pick it up.
  • But is this a typical contemporary romance.
  • Contemporary does not have to be trashy.
  • The art is very contemporary and much of it takes up a large, open space.
  • Loving Liberty is Belinda Boring’s New Adult contemporary novel.
  • The way they prepare food is contemporary, unique, and delicious.
  • Great energy, great music and a contemporary storyline.
  • It’s nice inside, and looks pretty hip and contemporary.
  • The new atmosphere is unorignal and nothing like the contemporary casualness of the old set up.
  • Great neighborhood cafe with fun contemporary ambiance and delicious food.
  • I am reading more Christian fiction, particularly contemporary fiction.
  • Love the the new contemporary decor.
  • Contemporary little accents all around.
  • Of course if you are a contemporary scientist, i.
  • Love the contemporary, yet warm decor.
  • Timeless and classical, the floral tapestry adds that elegant touch to a contemporary home.
  • It is written in first person with lots of contemporary dialogue.
  • I like the rustic meets contemporary look of the space.
  • Swann is an old style PI made excellently contemporary with some very smart writing.
  • A superbly written contemporary fantasy with an ancient romance.
  • Other reviews and product descriptions trumpet Stahl’s work as contemporary, experimental, and dark.
  • The rooms are old school contemporary, not old and beautiful and not up to date.
  • Far easier is it to describe what contemporary Lighting is NOT.
  • I really enjoyed it and recommend to anyone that likes a good contemporary story and fast cars.
  • Furthermore, Forrest is genuine, something rare in contemporary athlete celebrities.
  • All in all this was an excellent contemporary about mistakes and bullying.
  • If you want to read contemporary issues set with a paranormal background, this one is for you.
  • The place looks very contemporary and very orderly.
  • Contemporary modern furniture decor or cleanliness is a very important part of ur experience.
  • More of a contemporary mexican vibe.
  • There are some contemporary designs that gel within a traditional framework.
  • Clearly, he is on firmer ground when not hamstrung by illustrating contemporary people.
  • The ambiance is very cool and contemporary.
  • Very chic and contemporary yet warm with lighting and music.
  • This new contemporary romance author is on fire.
  • Contemporary novels have been really good this year, but this one blew me away.
  • Prices are fair, staff is nice, and restaurant has a nice contemporary atmosphere.
  • Contemporary home decor is, of course, very relative notion.
  • It is a contemporary horror story, and we must admire anyone who finds the courage to escape.
  • The new renovation is quite contemporary, which was overdue.
  • It was a little paranormal but mostly contemporary.
  • I think she is one of the best contemporary writers.
  • Often contemporary believers try to dismiss God’s law through quoting the words of Christ.
  • Enjoyable read with a contemporary message about the nature of the entertainment industry.
  • A contemporary home theater includes DVD players, CD changers and wide screen TVs.
  • But I don’t know why she seems to be a natural in telling a contemporary, real, easy to read story.
  • Of course I love her contemporary romance novels more, but I have a feeling she’ll soon excel at N.
  • One thing I talk a lot about for contemporary novels is emotion.
  • The restaurant has a nice contemporary theme, and is clean.
  • The decor has a contemporary modern feel.
  • Elegant, classy, and contemporary are words that I would use to describe this fine establishment.
  • The narrator is poet Robert Sherard, a real contemporary of Oscar Wilde.
  • The Summer I Turned Pretty is a great example of why I love contemporary novels.
  • From the outside it looks like every other coffee shop, crisp white and a contemporary feel.
  • I became so accustomed to flying through contemporary lesbian romance novels.
  • Contemporary decor, friendly service, great options for breakfast, brunch or lunch.
  • I thought it was going to be much less contemporary than it is.
  • It is thoroughly contemporary a bit hardboiled and noirish with violence and sex.
  • Just really great contemporary Asian decor that is quite lovely.
  • They have very contemporary frames and seem very current.
  • All the beautiful murals and contemporary colors that distract the little one very well.
  • Hemingway’s spare style has become common among contemporary writers, so I learned little from that.
  • Bedding the Wrong Brother, by Virnia DePaul, is a fun contemporary romance.
  • Paralegal degrees are considered an added advantage in the contemporary legal field.
  • Felt very contemporary.
  • It brought a contemporary, relevant feel to the female main character’s problems.
  • It has been redecorated in a cool, contemporary style.
  • Contemporary romance novels bore me.
  • Same quality, larger more contemporary look.
  • The choices range from the antique to the contemporary.
  • Fans of fantasy, romance, and contemporary literature will all appreciate this groundbreaking story.
  • Your sofa is more traditional while the side tables are contemporary.
  • It has a contemporary feel which is different from most other sushi restaurants I go to.
  • I liked reading about her family situation, too such a unique set up for contemporary YA.
  • It has a very rusty and contemporary feel to it which I like.
  • Cleverly written offering a nice change of pace from the normal contemporary romance.
  • He is a thinker, and also engages contemporary issues.
  • Is it all contemporary.
  • Modern space with quick service in a contemporary sit down setting.
  • Another wonderful contemporary Romance by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
  • It’s a contemporary Modern chic feel.
  • With that said, I will definitely read any future contemporary novels by Denise Grover Swank.
  • TELL ME A SECRET is a heartwrenchingly good contemporary YA read.
  • ZMM is a milestone work of contemporary philosophy.
  • The amuse bouches were served on a mirrored plate that reflected the contemporary light fixtures.
  • If you want an edge of your seat, heart stirring, contemporary romance, then you need to read this.
  • I love originality when it comes to contemporary romance.
  • This place has a pleasant, contemporary atmosphere with a fast casual ordering process.
  • Plenty of good restaurants, upbeat vibe, contemporary decor.
  • The atmosphere is nicely done as it represents the Thai culture in a contemporary setting.
  • A little jazz, contemporary fare.
  • I’m happy to recommend it to fans of contemporary Christian fiction.
  • The units are stylish and contemporary, the sound insulation is excellent.
  • There was old fashion burger place style integrated with a contemporary design, a very warm welcome.
  • As a lover of contemporary YA, I get very excited when I hear a new one has been released.
  • The contemporary decor, the presentation of each dish, and even the drinks.
  • The place is contemporary and pleasant.

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The infamous Black Dahlia case of the 1940s and a much more contemporary case from the 90s


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Contemporary of Dante I think – we’ll have to look him up


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Back in London, Defoe was saddened by a severe criticism of him by a contemporary Irish writer, Jonathan Swift


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Lang’s Making of Religion was heavily influenced by the 18th century idea of the «noble savage»: in it, he maintained the existence of high spiritual ideas among so-called «savage» races, drawing parallels with the contemporary interest in occult phenomena in England


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was contemporary with great theologians of the first


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It is a form of Creationism and a contemporary adaptation of the traditional theological argument for the existence of God, but one, which deliberately avoids specifying the nature or identity of the designer


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Condition that has enhanced civilization through the ages, and is in dauntingly short supply in contemporary American civilization


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We drove by the beaches, the stores, the banks, went to a contemporary shopping mall with its huge supermarket


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It is the capital of the state of Baja California Sur, and has all of the services you would expect in a contemporary government center


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She imagined some contemporary of Hollowcrest’s on the throne and felt sick

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In recent years, however, many of the ―faithful‖ have been lobbying for easier application and/or interpretation of historical customs and teachings considered dated by contemporary standards


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Assumptions by modern revisionists seeking to belie historical traditions, avidly supported by special interests with political axes to grind, however discredited such assumptions oftentimes are, may further promote muddled-headed thinking by ultimately winning the battle of ideas, however questionable their premises, by perpetuating falsehoods that, on the surface, oftentimes appear plausible to variable, ―discerning‖ young minds armed with partial knowledge, but sufficient enough to receive distorted impressions at their face value, rendering many vulnerable to questionable or unlikely propositions that bear little or no resemblance to the truth; advanced by (political and social) deconstructionists alienated from their (hated) customs, offering in exchange, contemporary standards predicated on historical fallacies, deception, inflicted reasoning and ignominious viewpoints


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History should never be judged by contemporary standards lest we fall off the ―shoulders of giants


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of the household? However unrealistic such programming may appear by conventional standards, they remain real in the sense that they underscore the importance of what many contemporary children are often lacking; meaningful parent/child relationships


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In this manner, contemporary biases and prejudices will (often) cause that individual (or that society, for that matter) to misread or misinterpret the historical significance or social ramifications of that (current) event or misjudge its future implications as it relates to (race relations)


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The further removed from time and space from some noteworthy event, but not so far as to reduce that event to an historical footnote, but far enough to allow the passage of time to ease a society‘s (collective) anxieties; future generations, no longer encumbered by such matters of immediate concern(s), will be in a better position to place these (historical) events in proper perspective, hindered as they might otherwise have been by contemporary currents or personal biases indigenous to the time(s) these historical events took place; that is to say, by being too close to the ―action‖


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The Past should never be judged by contemporary standards


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In this manner, contemporary events aligned with historical processes have oftentimes ―conspired‖ in overriding the feckless apathy or uncertain character of political leaders who must be properly guided toward ―destiny‘s‖ chartered course


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In what manner do ―prevailing‖ moral and spiritual agencies informing the ―good life‖ reconcile contemporary standards lacking (historical) precedence; that is to say, whose identities or stores of knowledge have been irretrievably lost?


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Its elasticity renders the Constitution a ―living‖ organism subject to contemporary interpretations or (the) prevailing temper (moral climate) of modern times

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If present attitudes are any indication of contemporary society‘s harsh assessment of its past, our society should not expect much sympathy from future generations that can only wonder how a society that called itself civilized and prided itself on its ―evolving standards of decency‖ could have condoned such barbarous practices


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Christ‘s principled teachings are oftentimes questioned by Secularists, Atheists and (nominal) ―Christians‖ alike who routinely disclaim their authenticity by either challenging scriptural interpretations or biblical precedence(s) mentioned in His teachings; that is to say, questioning whether or not Christ specifically said this or said that or whether His (contemporary) followers/biographers simply put words in His mouth in order to lend legitimacy to an incipient religious movement inasmuch as Christ, Himself, never 122


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What has happened, in effect, is that a college education has devolved into a cross-generational equivalent of a high school diploma; that is to say, a contemporary college education has superseded anachronistic (academic) standards of a generation ago


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In many ways Pilate was not unlike many contemporary politicians conditioned by the fine art of political expediency rather than motivated by the callings of Truth and Justice


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With few notable exceptions among my contemporary co-workers, however, most of my younger colleagues, young men in their twenties, were more inclined to talk about a ball game that had been played the night before


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positive psychology, emotional intelligence and contemporary spirituality


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It seems as though much of the evangelical church has followed the lead of contemporary society in that debates on important issues apparently cannot be carried out unless accompanied by mud-slinging and aggressive insults


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Maybe they can also help us to understand some of the problems we are facing in the contemporary church,


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“With the decline of the pagan religions around the time of Christ, a conscious movement to syncretize (smoothly merge) all religions was in progress…In the early years of Christianity, only loose boundaries were formed between the Church and contemporary cults; the syncretic movement did not exclude the new faith, nor did the Christian community fail to absorb elements from foreign beliefs


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contemporary saints and shared a mutual regard and reverence with

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“The name of a many-sided movement in the 1st and 2nd centuries of the Christian era which combined the mythology and symbolism of several pagan religions with the teachings of Christ…had two characteristic features: a metaphysical dualism of matter and spirit whose origins are to be found in the physical dualism of darkness and light in the Parsic (or Persian) religion; and a doctrine of redemption, by which those who devote themselves to gnosis, or a higher knowledge, may proceed from the former to the latter realm…Much of Gnostic literature was falsely ascribed to such authors as the disciples of Jesus, Jewish prophets, heroes of antiquity, or imaginary personages…With the decline of the pagan religions around the time of Christ, a conscious movement to syncretize (attempt to smoothly unite) all religions was in progress…In the early years of Christianity, only loose boundaries were formed between the Church and contemporary cults; the syncretic movement did not exclude the new faith, nor did Christianity fail to absorb elements of foreign beliefs


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And last, Pelagianism: “A religious doctrine taught by Pelagius, a British monk of the late 4th and early 5th centuries [late AD 300 to early 400]…[he] was a contemporary of St


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“No one doubts,” Berlinski states further, “that human beings now alive are connected to human beings that lived thousands of years ago…And no one doubts that human beings are connected to the rest of the animal kingdom…Why, then, has the kinship between human beings and the apes been so avidly promoted in contemporary culture?


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world those in argumentation and research their contemporaries, and knowledge of contemporary


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His book Shows About Nothing examines the assumptions and effects of contemporary television and movie entertainment


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Similarly the film The Ice Storm allows, Hibbs says, “the banality of evil to find its finest contemporary expression


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There are the leftover sympathizers with Communism from the Cold War; the graying rebels of the sixties; students from the University of Washington, force-fed the political correctitude of the contemporary American campus; and America haters of other stripes and causes as well from time to time


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It really offers visitors a unique blend of special contemporary comfort and enchantment of the old world, for in those islands there is much more than the sun, the sand and the sea with its clear and temperate waters


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The city projects a modern and majestic look with its tall buildings of old stone and its wide streets of contemporary appearance


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and it shows that no full-fledged alternative to contemporary libertarian thinking has been formed yet

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human beings actually, chat with each other, hold alcoholic drinks in contemporary glassware—


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The contemporary voluntary simplicity movement began in 1981 with the publication of Duane Elgin’s book, Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich


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In addition, we are to interpret Scripture in accord with contemporary human reason


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His contemporary, Ferdinand


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A contemporary critic accused him promoting “liberal goals…by illiberal means


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establishment; they certainly are well represented in that of the contemporary United States


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This plasticity of truth is what underpins contemporary “political correctness


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The next chapter will deal with three individuals and show how their influence conditioned the way we contemporary Americans think of ourselves and the


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The Coast Guard accommodated contemporary lighthouse nostalgia by transferring the historic facilities to other government agencies, private organizations and historical societies


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Contemporary Coast Guard responsibilities will necessitate more resources and expanded budgets (Kelley, Proceedings, May 2002, p

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The Coast Guard is well prepared to meet its traditional and contemporary responsibilities, enriching its heritage and illuminating its motto, “Semper Paratus


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Captain Waters chronicled the courage and skillful aviation techniques of amphibious helicopter pilots in countless missions, endorsed the seaworthiness of the successful aircraft, regretted the termination of their use, and insisted that the amphibious choppers increased the safety of crews and rescue swimmers, and asserted that with the amphibious vehicles, and the potential failure of the contemporary hoist mechanism, recovery success rates would be enhanced (Waters, pp


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The historic and contemporary missions of the Coast Guard have earned it the service motto, “Semper Paratus


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Lighthouse Service, a contemporary of the U


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his opinion was one of the most respected and sought after in the contemporary music


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missiological is the study of mission, including biblical, theological, historical, contemporary and


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Ivan Lake, the editor of thèBodleian’, a contemporary at Cambridge, tells me that although the two men moved in different sets, they frequented the same literary circles


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gained day after day in the contemporary world through the efforts of those


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A less contemporary type of review may be of a higher being reading from a Book of Life (for Christian experiencers) or a being reading from the Akashic records (for Hindu experiencers)


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belong to contemporary human beings in the physical sphere; who watch

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Some of the (very few) letters I have been receiving are revealing that many of you, (including the contemporary President and the Treasurer of Association M’AIM) do not have a clear understanding of the precariousness and urgency of the current legal situation


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process continues to this day, and I would say that most contemporary


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moments with which they can identify, while contemporary nurses are


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Like most contemporary art practitioners who have spent too long in tertiary art institutions, her head was full of mesmerising psychobabble substitutes for rational thought


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[Note: a more contemporary method includes virtual meetings and e-mailed artifacts


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and the indolence of contemporary men, their ignorance and hurry, leads them, unfortunately, to the


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As one of the ways of sanctification, monasticism emphasizes the presence of the Holy Spirit in the contemporary


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For, as a contemporary ascetic tel s us, the saints would stil love Christ selflessly, even if there were no paradise, even if we were to suppose that al the places of paradise had been already claimed


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Many contemporary heretics


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A great contemporary elder, living in a cave in an isolated part of Mt

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contemporary saints, which reveal its miraculous power


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His first impression was one of comfort: the seasoned blend of early 1900’s charm with flashes of contemporary art and architecture


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This brings to the fore the question whether the plant life preceded, succeeded or contemporary to the plunamic evolution


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For he came of a very old race, whose myths ran back to shapes undreamed of by contemporary tribes


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Nancy Chodorow and many contemporary feminist object-relations theorists have


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not achieve one of the most primary kinds of satisfaction from relationships, but that it is also greatly overdetermined-particularly in contemporary middle-class society,


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according to her parents’ standards for her, and as a success in her own contemporary


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Women and anger: Conflicts with aggression in contemporary women


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Some of the evidence for this is archaeological, but we can also get a good idea of how our ancestors may have lived by looking at various contemporary indigenous cultures that have not yet been overly influenced by contact with western civilisation (the Kogi of Colombia, the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Penan in Malaysia)


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The contemporary ranch house stood within yards of the original cabin and sported most of the modern conveniences

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His heritage, the arduous way of the warrior was a thing of history not of contemporary Miccosukee and Seminole Indian tribes


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Does the practice of targeting killings as implemented by the Israelis against them in the early twenty-first century constitute an act of war or a form of ethnic cleansing? Were the American attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq justified by the World Trade Center attack? What was the fatality ratio? Ten thousand to one? How can that be justified? Was it in fact a crusade against Islam as some of the contemporary critics claimed?”


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up contemporary tales that they embellished and wrote


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Instead of the dirty off-white paints and scratched up vinyl tile that I had usually seen there was a greater sense of contemporary design


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but I suppose they wanted to add a bit of contemporary feel to the play this month


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A YA Romance, mixing the best of contemporary and paranormal


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(Rounded Script), RUQ’AH (Used by most of the contemporary


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I came across a few country western stations and some adult contemporary but I kept searching for something else


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It would be a waste of cattle and a little unsanitary if we did many of the old traditions in contemporary society


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Sammy had ten top forty singles and thirteen songs made the top forty adult contemporary chart

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In 1995, the United States Post Office honored him with a commemorative stamp and in that same year, Live Bird, a one-man play with Jeff Robinson, premiered in Boston at the Institute of Contemporary Art


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In May 1975, Wildfire was number three on the pop charts and number one on both the adult contemporary charts and the radio and record charts, selling over a million copies


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“If the carbon dating placed a contemporary date on the


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that we know are contemporary by other dating methods,


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As contemporary Christians, we should be actively looking for the return of Jesus and the


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For one thing, the radio systems of the scoutship could be controlled by simply punching in the desired frequency, compared to the often long process used in the contemporary radios, where the operator had to first find the frequency and then carefully tune his radio to take out most of the parasite noise


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There was already a contemporary radio receiver in the lounge but, apart from being bulky, its sound quality was probably nowhere as good as that of the transistorized set that had belonged to Nancy


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The house was all-white, contemporary, probably built ten or twelve years ago, two


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The cause of this reaction, in my view, is the manner in which the book is drafted, facts being presented with penetrating clarity and accuracy, put together with correct and cogent assessment of the contemporary situation


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‘Members of the United Nations stood for a minute’s silence at their headquarters in New York as a mark of respect for an iconic African leader, whose humility and honesty remain a guiding light for contemporary leaders on a continent still blighted by the tribalism and internecine strife that he stood against

What does the word contemporary mean?

According to Collins English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the word contemporary is an adjective that describes something that is modern or related to the present time. The noun contemporary refers to a person who is alive at the same time they are. Contemporary is five syllables – con-tem-po-rar-y, and the pronunciation of contemporary is kənˈtɛmprərɪ. One can also replace the suffix ary with ies or raries to make the plural noun contemporaries.

The word contemporary also refers to a historical period called contemporary history. This subset of the late modern period and early modern period is considered a subset of modern history by scholars. This time period covers roughly 1945 at the end of World War II – the present period. This is one of the major subsets of modern history following the early 19th century. This can encompass modern ideas, modern dress, modern style, current ideas or achievements and more.

Many different languages also contain words that mean contemporary. You may notice that many of these words look and sound like the word contemporary. These are called cognates, which are often formed when two words have the same language of origin or root. This list of translations of contemporary is provided by Word Sense.

  •  Bulgarian: съвременен‎ (sǎvreménen), модерен‎ (modéren)
  •  Hungarian: kortárs‎
  •  Swedish: nutida‎
  •  Georgian: თანამედროვე‎
  •  Portuguese: contemporâneo‎ (masc.), contemporânea‎ (fem.), tmoderno (masc.), moderna‎ (fem.)
  •  Catalan: contemporani‎
  •  Russian: совреме́нный‎
  •  Italian: contemporaneo‎
  •  Slovene: sodoben‎
  •  Albanian: bashkëkohor modern
  •  Scottish Gaelic: co-aimsireil‎
  •  Hebrew: עכשווי‎ (masc.), בֶּן זְמַנֵּנוּ‎
  •  Persian: نوین‎ (novin)
  •  German: zeitgenössisch‎, modern‎
  •  Spanish: contemporáneo‎, contemporario‎
  •  Japanese: 現代‎, 近代‎, モダン‎
  •  Czech: současný‎ (masc.)
  •  Tagalog: kasalukuyan‎, kapanahon‎
  •  Mandarin: 現代‎, 现代‎, 摩登‎ (módēng), 近代‎
  •  Macedonian: современ‎ (sóvremen)
  •  Korean: 현대‎
  •  Irish: nua-aimseartha‎
  •  Arabic: عَصْرِيّّ‎, حَدِيث‎, مُعَاصِر‎
  •  Danish: moderne‎, nutids-‎
  •  Polish: współczesny‎ (masc.)
  •  French: contemporain‎
  •  Dutch: hedendaags‎, eigentijds‎
  •  Turkish: çağdaş‎, modern‎, çağcıl‎
  •  Maori: onāianei‎

What is the origin of the word contemporary?

According to Etymonline, the word contemporary has been used since the early c17 as an adjective and noun. This comes from the Medieval Latin contemporārius and Medieval Latin contemporarius, from the Latin con and the Latin temporarius meaning of time. This comes from the Latin tempus, meaning time. In 18c, it was commonly written as “cotemporary.” Contemporary times and contemporary style  have been observed since the 1940s.

How can the word contemporary be used in a sentence?

The word contemporary can be used in many contests. Below are several examples of contemporary. 

The historian, Dr. Leibniz, gave a lecture at Princeton University on numerous different artefacts including a Georgian table with a contemporary wig stand, and a contemporary dress. The contemporary design surprised the students – it looked so similar to those of the present period, though the Elizabethan dress from Europe was made so long ago. It is interesting to see how contemporary trends make use of past fashion

Hemingway and Fitzgerald each wrote contemporary novels, though their values are starkly different, like how Mozart was contemporaneous to composer Salieri, the contemporary of Shakespeare in Cervantes, the early mammals and their saurian contemporaries, or Petrarch and Chaucer, two coeval stars of their time. 

The rise of industrialism and the spread of steam power in contemporary America has led to some great innovations as well as fatal mistakes. This dawning of civilization and capitalism has its drawbacks over long periods of time, like the role of computers or modern-day medicine. 

The contemporary production of Othello’s ambiguity provided great commentary on the conflicts of modern day, though it was written so long ago. 

The business owner was surprised that so many customers’ orders were of the same contemporary print. She could scroll her order page for days and only see the same product. She went through her packaging rituals with glee.

The market makers and trading company were surprised to see the interest rates fluctuate compared to the 20th century. 

What are synonyms and antonyms of the word contemporary?

There are many different words that have the same meaning as the word contemporary, called synonyms. These words can be used interchangeably with the word contemporary. These are useful to know if you are trying to work on expanding your vocabulary and avoiding repeating yourself. This list of synonyms is provided by Power Thesaurus.

  •  up-to-the-minute
  •  modern-day
  •  stylish
  •  topical
  •  synchronic
  •  fashionable
  •  coetaneous
  •  coinciding
  •  coexisting
  •  ultramodern
  •  simultaneous
  •  today
  •  latest
  •  all the rage
  •  peer
  •  extant
  •  coexistent
  •  up-to-date
  •  present-day
  •  coincident
  •  now
  •  new
  •  advanced
  •  existent
  •  fellow
  •  existing
  •  avant-garde
  •  present
  •  trendy
  •  state-of-the-art
  •  coeval
  •  synchronal
  •  contemporaneous
  •  present day
  •  mod
  •  modern
  •  up to date
  •  au courant
  •  newest
  •  newfangled
  •  synchronous
  •  in vogue
  •  modernistic
  •  accompanying
  •  chic
  •  concurrent
  •  recent
  •  fresh
  •  current
  •  modish

There are also many different words that have the opposite meaning as the word contemporary. These are called antonyms, which are another great way that you can improve your vocabulary. This list of antonyms for contemporary is also provided by Power Thesaurus. 

  •  traditional
  •  noncurrent
  •  archaic
  •  old as methuselah
  •  as old as the hills
  •  ancient
  •  early
  •  legacy
  •  frumpish
  •  unstylish
  •  old-fashioned
  •  passé
  •  old-fangled
  •  anachronistic
  •  old as the hills
  •  antiquated
  •  frumpy
  •  old
  •  antwacky
  •  dated
  •  outdated
  •  outmoded
  •  behind the curve
  •  past
  •  late
  •  old-world
  •  kaput
  •  obsolete
  •  old-time
  •  at different times
  •  jurassic
  •  vintage
  •  asynchronous
  •  unfashionable
  •  antediluvian
  •  absent
  •  noncontemporary
  •  age-old
  •  future
  •  old hat
  •  nonsimultaneous
  •  prehistoric
  •  former
  •  antique
  •  moth-eaten
  •  nonsynchronous
  •  disgusting
  •  bygone
  •  behind the times
  •  medieval

Overall, the word contemporary means of modern day or modern times. This word can be used as a noun or adjective.

Sources:

  1. contemporary: meaning, origin, translation | Word Sense 
  2. Contemporary synonyms – 903 Words and Phrases for Contemporary | Power Thesaurus 
  3. Contemporary antonyms – 581 Opposites of Contemporary | Power Thesaurus 
  4. contemporary | Origin and meaning of contemporary | Online Etymology Dictionary 
  5. Contemporary definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary 

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