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contemporaneous

[kuhn-tem-puh-rey-nee-uhs] / kənˌtɛm pəˈreɪ ni əs /


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The Labs was boosted by contemporaneous work for the U.S. military, in World War II and during the Cold War.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

I have no contemporaneous documentation of this transaction at all.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 2, 2026

He said the paper had produced "no contemporaneous record or corroborating evidence to support these disputed recollections from nearly 50 years ago".

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

A leading oceanographer has told the BBC that contemporaneous meteorological data from the nearest airport strongly supports the survivors' recollections.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2025

The deep antiquity of the Babylonian tradition is somewhat exaggerated, however: their most impressive work in mathematical astronomy dates after 300, roughly contemporaneous with developments in the Hellenistic world.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro