contemporaries

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What sets Forster apart from most of his contemporaries was his attitude toward indigenous peoples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

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

Over the course of a long literary career, Mark Helprin has written novels and stories about the kind of men few of his contemporaries care to depict.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

But a narrative throughline hellbent on retribution neatly threads Harris’ fiery aesthetic choices together, giving “Is God Is” far more substance — and much more thematic intrigue — than its contemporaries.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

The reason that Gassendi and a good many of his contemporaries were willing to accept the idea of a vacuum in the 1640s was that there was experimental evidence that ‘the void’ existed.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin