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contemporary
adjective as in modern
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abreast, au courant, contempo, existent, extant, hot off the press, in fashion, in vogue, just out, leading-edge, newfangled, red-hot, state-of-the-art, topical, ultramodern, up, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, voguish, with it
adjective as in existing, occurring at same time
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accompanying, associated, coetaneous, coexistent, coexisting, coincident, concurrent, connected, contemporaneous, linked, related, simultaneous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous
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Our “contemporary age,” he laments, “likes to signal its own virtue by calling out others without looking at the nuances of the case.”
It’s one of many smart, rueful asides in what amounts to a nonjudgmental cinematic essay on the increasingly atomized nature of contemporary living.
His illustration received little attention from Newton's contemporaries, even though it was one of the clearest early depictions.
With “Tranquilizer,” the composer returns to methods deployed on his 2011 album, “Replica,” a landmark of contemporary experimental electronic music.
The film has unleashed a flurry of activity, which has been exciting to experience so late in my life, when so many of my contemporaries have either passed on or been forgotten about.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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