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Nobel committee member Steve Sem-Sandberg said Carson is “an author for our time,” unique in her skill at connecting contemporary ways of living through antiquity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

“The lesson of history is that alliance systems often prove more resilient in retrospect than contemporary observers expect at the time,” they write.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Tawdry doings, perhaps, by contemporary standards, but highly effective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Geneticists were able to collect enough intact Neanderthal DNA from fossils to make a broad comparison between it and the DNA of contemporary humans.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

The primary difference between Hartnett and his contemporaries, though, was that Hartnett could hold his own on screen.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

While Genghis may have been the most skilled chief among his Mongol contemporaries, his skills would have been wasted if he had been born 20 years earlier, or 200 miles to the south.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

However, she became distressed when her ideas were copied by or "inspired" her male contemporaries – including Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Lucas Samaras – whose works would be displayed at more prestigious galleries.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

This includes direct matchups against those contemporaries, 288 wins, some very impressive postseason wins and stats, and including shutouts that match those of other pitchers of his time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

A notch below six feet four and slightly above two hundred pounds, he was a full head taller than his male contemporaries.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis