Sample Sentences for
contemporary
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(editor-reviewed)

contemporary as in:  contemporary design

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It's easier to find outstanding books when selecting from those that have been in print for a long time. Were it not for that, I would prefer modern literature with its contemporary language, issues, and ideas.
contemporary = belonging to the present time
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    We're visiting the Museum of Contemporary Art.
    contemporary = characteristic of or belonging to the present time
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    This is a picture of a contemporary animal.  (source)
    contemporary = belonging to the present time
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    Toward the end of June, Chris, still in Atlanta, mailed his parents a copy of his final grade report: A in Apartheid and South African Society and History of Anthropological Thought; A minus in Contemporary African Politics and the Food Crisis in Africa.  (source)
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    He pulled me away toward the door, and I followed him while Van Houten ranted to Lidewij about the ingratitude of contemporary teenagers and the death of polite society, and Lidewij, somewhat hysterical, shouted back at him in rapid-fire Dutch.  (source)
    contemporary = belonging to the present time
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    At this writing, only England has held back before the temptations of contemporary diabolism.  (source)
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    For years I'd wanted to implement a project to change the way we talk about racial history and contextualize contemporary race issues.  (source)
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    As Saeed was coming down from the hill to where Nadia again sat by their tent, a young woman was leaving the contemporary art gallery she worked at in Vienna.  (source)
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    The plaid suits with large collars, the bushy mustaches and overdue haircuts, and the thick knotted ties were all obviously stylish back when he went to Oxford but looked a little funny through contemporary eyes.  (source)
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    Well, because Hawthorne's work is so extraordinary and applicable to contemporary society, I want each of you to write a report pertaining to the novel.  (source)
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    Contemporary legends such as the "underground pipe-line to Canada" attached themselves to him, and there was one persistent story that he didn't live in a house at all, but in a boat that looked like a house and was moved secretly up and down the Long Island shore.  (source)
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    The page listed a bibliography of over fifty titles—books by well-known historians, some contemporary, some centuries old—many of them academic bestsellers.  (source)
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    Take the case of two contemporary novels.  (source)
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    He was pacing one of the aisles, his arms crossed, glancing at the contemporary titles.  (source)
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contemporary as in:  they are contemporaries

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Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were contemporary artists who competed for some projects.
contemporary = lived at the same time
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    The composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart.
    contemporary = of the same time
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    This, from a contemporary critic's commentary on Madame Butterfly: "Pinkerton suffers from …. being an obnoxious bounder whom every man in the audience itches to kick."  (source)
    contemporary = something occurring in the same period of time as something else
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    The authority which we have chiefly followed—a manuscript of old date, drawn up from the verbal testimony of individuals, some of whom had known Hester Prynne, while others had heard the tale from contemporary witnesses fully confirms the view taken in the foregoing pages.  (source)
    contemporary = living at the same time
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    We think these dinosaurs were so successful because they had better jaws and teeth for chewing plants than their contemporaries did.  (source)
    contemporaries = those who lived during the same time period
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    G. K. Chesterton, a mystery writer and contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, has a story, "The Arrow of Heaven" (1926), in which a man is killed by an arrow.  (source)
    contemporary = living or working at the same time
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    He was much older than the parents of our school contemporaries, and there was nothing Jem or I could say about him when our classmates said, "My father-"  (source)
    contemporaries = people of about the same age
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    Djuna Barnes, a contemporary of Lawrence and Joyce, investigates the world of sexual desire, fulfillment, and frustration in her dark classic, Nightwood (1937).  (source)
    contemporary = someone living or working at the same time
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    As we stared at the markups on the wall, admiring the work of some of our contemporaries, Shea reached over his shoulder, pulled the backpack in front of him, and slowly unzipped it.  (source)
    contemporaries = people of about the same age
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    Rufus Wilmot Griswold is indeed a historical figure and contemporary of Edgar Allan Poe.  (source)
    contemporary = someone living at the same time
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    If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subjects than others of your standing, reflect that you have had greater opportunities of seeing the world, and obtaining a knowledge of mankind than any of your contemporaries.  (source)
    contemporaries = people who lived or worked at the same time
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    Both Jesus and Socrates were enigmatic personalities, also to their contemporaries.†  (source)
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    We were contemporaries, and she consulted me on many cases.†  (source)
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    When he unveiled the invention at the fair, the prototype was as yet untested, and his contemporaries were skeptical—and rightfully so.†  (source)
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