contemporary
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The contemporary Laguna Beach, Calif., home is the second-highest sale recorded in Orange County.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Now, Johnson’s Pasadena residence is seeking a buyer willing to pay nearly $3.3 million for its combination of contemporary architecture, flexible living spaces, and resort-inspired amenities.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
The renovation brought a contemporary aesthetic to the home, emphasizing natural light, open living spaces, and a seamless connection to the surrounding greenery.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
RonBen is a Peruvian-born, Los Angeles–raised stylist, specializing in blending vintage and contemporary aesthetics to create lo que no esperas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The art establishment also objects to “the new painting” for what the artists paint: contemporary subjects such as train stations, cafes, bridges.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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“If you think about who her contemporaries and peers are, there’s something quite radical about her putting her body in so much of that work, especially that early work,” Grossman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The primary difference between Hartnett and his contemporaries, though, was that Hartnett could hold his own on screen.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Pollock's pay puts him well ahead of most of his contemporaries in the Prem however.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Worse than these attempts at stolen glory, perhaps, is the spectacle of how contemporaries revised their opinions of Wilde to suit prevailing fashions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Thus it is important to see that when we hail Theodoric as an important scientist our judgement is essentially anachronistic: he did not seem important to his contemporaries or successors, and his influence is negligible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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