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 twist is not Emma’s confession itself, but how the film contends with its dark, exquisitely nuanced subject matter in a way that is completely different from its contemporaries.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
Bruckner aside, most of Wagner’s contemporaries, while quick to assert his musical brilliance, were as at sea with the whole Wagner-and-the-future-of-all-art project as they were with the cultural agendas of his dramas.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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