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contemporaries

NOUN
generation
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
age crop microgeneration
WEAK
Beat Generation Gen X Gen Y Gen Z Generation A Generation X Generation Y Generation Z Lost Generation Millennials Silent Generation Xennials baby boomers boomers sandwich generation


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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

In fact, it’s got more pop DNA than many of its contemporaries — just don’t expect the intricacies to come from Mother Mary’s music or her mythology.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

But it was “striking” that so many male contemporaries “saw them as disruptors of family harmony and alienators of women from their husbands.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

By the standards of their parents and grandparents, and compared to many of their contemporaries, they had reached the mountaintop.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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