as in contemporaries
a person who lives at the same time or is about the same age as another
somewhat surprisingly, Saint Patrick and Attila the Hun were coevals
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Recent Examples of coevals
The universal hatred comes from the child star’s coevals, whose curiosity about the occupation is mingled with resentment.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coevals
contemporaries
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Like his contemporaries, however, Mayer took for granted that the device was a fake.—
Ron Cowen,
Scientific American,
3 June 2026
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Knight is a lot better at this than most of his contemporaries, but tactility can be difficult to fake for someone who usually doesn’t have to.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
2 June 2026
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“Coevals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coevals. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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