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contemporaneous

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


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They are three people who watched the fire get lit and, by their own contemporaneous words, knew exactly what was burning.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

In recent years, the central bank’s answer to these questions has largely been data dependence—using contemporaneous data to determine whether policy is overly restrictive or accommodative.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

These contemporaneous dictionaries and historical cases did not materialize for the first time in the court’s opinion.

From Slate Jun. 3, 2026

Compared with, say, the War on Drugs, a contemporaneous band that has taken some shared influences to a much larger audience, Mr. Morby favors directness and specificity, and works on a more modest scale.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

It is as fundamental a structural change to the way music sounded as was the contemporaneous decision to start using timber frames and bricks in the building of houses.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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