as in concurrently
at one and the same time
Mozart was writing music contemporaneously with Haydn
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Recent Examples of contemporaneously
The partnership of Pantages, Mills & Shreve happened to be developing 15 subdivisions on the Point more or less contemporaneously with Azure Vista.
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Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
An order consistent with this Memorandum Opinion will be entered contemporaneously.
—New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
An order consistent with this Memorandum Opinion will be entered contemporaneously.
—New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contemporaneously
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Prosecutors say all sentences will run concurrently, and Mills is credited for 193 days served.—
Joseph Buczek,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The United States, Jakes argues, concurrently went to war to reassert its dominance in the Gulf and instead handed Iran a platform to start collecting tolls in yuan and cryptocurrency—anything, that is, except dollars.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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Theoretically, the Yankees could get Rice and Goldschmidt in the lineup simultaneously, as the former came up through the minors as a catcher.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Seventy-three million baby boomers are flooding into their seventies as patients while simultaneously retiring from the nursing workforce, squeezing supply and demand from both directions at once.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Contemporaneously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemporaneously. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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