contemporaries
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Rollins survived virtually all of his contemporaries from the 1950s and ’60s, the period in which the fundamental elements of the contemporary jazz that followed for the next half-century were established.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
It is an influence felt by his contemporaries down the divisions, as Karl Robinson admitted when his Oxford United side faced Guardiola at Manchester City two seasons in succession in the Carabao Cup.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
The record may look better to posterity than it does to Mr. Trump’s contemporaries.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The obscurity condemned by Johnson derives in part from Shakespeare’s readiness to draw on vocabulary that would have struck even his contemporaries as bewilderingly nonstandard.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
As recalled by one of his contemporaries, Isbel was “content with the reflected greatness which shone on the blade of his razor and now settled on him.”
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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