contemporary
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Next is a contemporary analysis of how the negotiation was doomed because Spalding sent Anson, a prickly personality, to do the talking.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
I have the real honor of being more of a mentor than a contemporary to Lukita.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
We spent a fabulous hour chatting about how he invented the modern sand wedge and about my golfing hero - Walter Hagen - being a contemporary of his.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
And yet, a few Red Hot bangers manage to endlessly caravan in and out of lives because they’re in constant rotation on Jack FM and other adult contemporary radio stations: “Give It Away.”
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
“I knew that the results I obtained were not easily compatible with our contemporary science,” Mendel wrote, and “an isolated experiment might be doubly dangerous.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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