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coeval

[koh-ee-vuhl] / koʊˈi vəl /
ADJECTIVE
contemporary
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This approach examines only supernovae from young, coeval galaxies -- those with stars of similar ages -- across the entire redshift range.

From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2025

He died at 94, his life nearly coeval with the 20th century.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2018

That’s what Deford was thinking about thirty years ago, when he wrote about Gus Johnson, Deford’s own preferred sporting coeval.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2017

Martin Scorsese, Spielberg’s coeval and the director of roughly the same number of films, has helped five actors to Oscars.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2012

It was one of the first two inland settlements of the colony, being coeval with Concord.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various