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contemporary

[kuhn-tem-puh-rer-ee] / kənˈtɛm pəˌrɛr i /




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This year, a tale more than 2,000 years old felt contemporary and all too real.

From The Wall Street Journal

But as the Oxford Companion says of Gainsborough, “Unlike most of his contemporaries he employed no drapery painter.”

From The Wall Street Journal

He has reported on every major development in contemporary Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ant and Dec enlisted the intermediary, a consultant referred to as X in court, to help them buy, sell and loan the artworks as they built up a contemporary art collection.

From BBC

It has a contemporary bent despite the 1870s setting, with modern music used as the soundtrack.

From Los Angeles Times