contemporary with

Frequency: 8.525.1 per million words

used to link two people or things that existed at the same time

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Examples (10)

  • The composer was contemporary with Mozart, but their musical styles were vastly different.
  • This style of pottery is exactly contemporary with the early Ming Dynasty.
  • Jane Austen, a celebrated novelist, was contemporary with the Romantic poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge.
  • The fossil evidence shows that this species was contemporary with early hominids.
  • Was the philosopher Plato truly contemporary with the historian Herodotus for any significant period?
  • The Viking raids in Europe were broadly contemporary with the Tang dynasty's decline in China.
  • Although their political ideologies clashed, the two leaders were contemporary with each other.
  • This architectural movement is considered contemporary with the rise of early modernism.
  • The unearthed artifacts are roughly contemporary with those from the neighboring ancient city.
  • We are studying a period of political upheaval that was contemporary with major scientific breakthroughs.