Contemporaries

Word CONTEMPORARIES
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Hyphenation contemporaries
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Definitions and meanings of "Contemporaries"

What do we mean by contemporaries?

Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.

Something existing at the same time.

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The word "contemporaries" in example sentences

Doubtless the heaviest burden of our contemporaries is a consciousness of a divergence between our democratic theory on the one hand, that working people have a right to the intellectual resources of society, and the actual fact on the other hand, that thousands of them are so overburdened with toil that there is no leisure nor energy left for the cultivation of the mind. ❋ Unknown (1910)

In his parables, the familiar world of his contemporaries is recast, to become something new and strange -- people showing up late for work receive the same wage as the early birds, layabouts are treated with more favour than their dutiful siblings, his Kingdom is like a mustard seed, and friends and family, we are told, should not be invited to your dinner-parties. ❋ Unknown (2009)

During the last four years, while most of her contemporaries from the first part of her career have dropped off the radar or retired from the sport, Reed has been chugging along, picking up World Cup and Pan-Am Games medals and multiple national championships along the way. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What was unremarkable to contemporaries, in other words, is precisely what seems most puzzling in retrospect. ❋ Gideon Rose (2010)

If the world is done right, then we, as readers, are willing to accept a lot more from these men than we would from men in contemporaries, for example. ❋ Nalini Singh (2007)

Obviously, the thing that will set the R-Zero apart from its sports car contemporaries is the fact that it will be powered by an electric engine. ❋ Unknown (2006)

[Page 162] away from a newspaper office, and after a long time read in the same paper: "One of our respected contemporaries is authority for the story than an unknown Indian woman dropped dead on the street about two weeks ago." ❋ Unknown (1888)

THE extraordinary bodily, as well as mental superiority which Wallace and Bruce possessed over their contemporaries, is thus recorded by Hector Boetius: – ❋ Unknown (1875)

I write single-title contemporaries and romantic suspense. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The unanimous evidence of his contemporaries is confirmed by the public and private declarations of the emperor himself; and his various writings express the uniform tenor of his religious sentiments, which policy would have prompted him to dissemble rather than to affect. ❋ Unknown (1206)

What earned Montherlant so much admiration from Gide and other contemporaries was his complete sincerity, his readiness to say exactly what he wanted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With the paranormal world I feel like authors are a bit edgier and can have more aggressive/modern women than I find in contemporaries. ❋ Nalini Singh (2009)

The sort of celebrity enjoyed by Parker and her contemporaries was a far cry from the often-bratty variety that emerged during the supermodel era of the 1980s and '90s, embodied by Linda ( "We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day") Evangelista and maid-assaulter Naomi Campbell. ❋ Lesley M. M. Blume (2010)

Our contemporaries are the movers of the next generation. ❋ Ami Fields-Meyer (2011)

Further, re-entering lawyers also must come to grips with psycho-social factors, most significantly the fact that they're older than their fellow associates while their contemporaries are their bosses. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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