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
Adverb
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Disruption has quickly become the new norm, with macro-scale events happening consecutively and concurrently rather than sporadically, requiring heightened risk management.—
SJ Studio,
Footwear News,
12 June 2026
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Traffic typically backs up on Harbor Drive and other main downtown thoroughfares on nights when concerts at The Shell and Padres games take place concurrently.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2026
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That turn of phrase, which gives both the band’s eighth album and lead track its title, This Mirror Weighs a Ton, frankly doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and that’s sort of the point since Banks came up with it while improvising the melodies and vocals simultaneously.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
9 June 2026
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But, unlike armies of antiquity, modern armies depend on an extraordinarily complex web of fuel, ammunition, spare parts, maintenance crews, communications, transport, and increasingly autonomous systems operating across multiple domains simultaneously.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
9 June 2026
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“Contemporaneously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemporaneously. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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