contemporaneous
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"She's a diplomat, not a D-list celebrity. My 15-year-old, social media obsessed, brother is less shameless in his self-promotion," reads some contemporaneous testimony.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 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
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 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
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