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contemporaneous

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


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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

The instrumental consort—three viols, two violins, harpsichord and lute/theorbo—offered an invigorating collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean hits by such contemporaneous composers as William Brade, William Lawes, John Dowland and Anthony Holborne.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

The problem, as scholars such as Jerry Lembcke have shown, is that there is almost no contemporaneous evidence of such hostility.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2025

It is a thousand years old, roughly contemporaneous with a report of an organ at Winchester Cathedral that boasted an extraordinary four hundred pipes.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall