as in companions
a person who lives at the same time or is about the same age as another
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were exact contemporaries, actually being born on the same day in 1809
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Recent Examples of contemporaries
Private homes are often open for visitors during the annual Wright Plus Architectural Housewalk, which features tours of private homes designed by Wright and his contemporaries.
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Maya Chawla,
Architectural Digest,
1 July 2026
From the publisher’s perspective, digital games are more lucrative for Sony and its contemporaries, who no longer have to deal with the costs of producing discs.
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Andrew Webster,
The Verge,
1 July 2026
Ohio Ohio’s HB68 actually goes one step further than some of its contemporaries.
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Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
Much like their 1990s grunge and alt-rock contemporaries in America, Canada’s Our Lady Peace were writing and recording murky, sorrowful songs about youthful frustration and adult rage, love lost and societal alienation.
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Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
28 June 2026
Prescient contemporaries saw the 1772 partition as a grave assault on the international order.
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David Armitage,
Washington Post,
26 June 2026
And there are few of Dreesen’s friends and contemporaries left now to give him the same sentiment treatment about his passing.
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Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
The Gilded Age fortunes that scandalized their contemporaries became, within a generation, the universities, museums and hospitals that form America’s civic backbone.
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Douglas P. McCormick,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Across four days and 13 concerts, Salonen threaded his contemporaries, neglected Italian modernists, Lutoslawski and Ligeti, Stravinsky with his own works into Ojai’s alfresco soundscape of birdsong, film screenings and experiments.
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Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
Maya Chawla,
Architectural Digest,
1 July 2026
From the publisher’s perspective, digital games are more lucrative for Sony and its contemporaries, who no longer have to deal with the costs of producing discs.
—
Andrew Webster,
The Verge,
1 July 2026
Ohio Ohio’s HB68 actually goes one step further than some of its contemporaries.
—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
Much like their 1990s grunge and alt-rock contemporaries in America, Canada’s Our Lady Peace were writing and recording murky, sorrowful songs about youthful frustration and adult rage, love lost and societal alienation.
—
Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
28 June 2026
Prescient contemporaries saw the 1772 partition as a grave assault on the international order.
—
David Armitage,
Washington Post,
26 June 2026
And there are few of Dreesen’s friends and contemporaries left now to give him the same sentiment treatment about his passing.
—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
The Gilded Age fortunes that scandalized their contemporaries became, within a generation, the universities, museums and hospitals that form America’s civic backbone.
—
Douglas P. McCormick,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Across four days and 13 concerts, Salonen threaded his contemporaries, neglected Italian modernists, Lutoslawski and Ligeti, Stravinsky with his own works into Ojai’s alfresco soundscape of birdsong, film screenings and experiments.
—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contemporaries
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Or through the eyes of her new companions, like Beef Roger Crummchuk.
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Another 54% turned to their AI companions for advice on life skills.
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Members of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s NBA Summer League team got pummeled by their Memphis Grizzlies’ counterparts on Saturday evening, falling 111-74 in an opening game in Salt Lake City.
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Like their counterparts in the founding generation, most 19th century reformers had their own prejudices and their own ideas about whose liberation mattered most.
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Those implementations must treat policy design and technical design as equals.
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The announcement framed it as a merger of equals, bringing 42 parks together under one company.
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The universal hatred comes from the child star’s coevals, whose curiosity about the occupation is mingled with resentment.
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“Contemporaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contemporaries. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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