contemporary
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For Mr. Feiler, these “entrepreneurs of meaning” have done what he finds “unfathomable”: take a “niche, all-but-dead custom” and turn it into “a thriving symbol,” thereby reclaiming “outdated rituals for contemporary audiences.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Mainstream contemporary historians view the Constitution as a compromise between free and slaveholding states.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
I am disheartened by the merely contemporary and hence indifferent to every fad.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
And in an age when many steamboats, cheaply built and poorly maintained, did, in the words of one contemporary, “a wholesale business in human slaughter,” Vanderbilt never lost a ship to fire, explosion or shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
There was arena-style seating and a rock band jamming out with the latest Christian contemporary pop.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
Vocabulary lists containing contemporary
It's About Time: Chron and Temp
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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