roughly contemporary

Frequency: 5.55.1 per million words

belonging to approximately the same period of time

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Examples (10)

  • Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were roughly contemporary.
  • The Mayan civilization was roughly contemporary with the Roman Empire.
  • These pottery shards are roughly contemporary, suggesting they came from the same settlement.
  • Shakespeare and Cervantes are considered roughly contemporary literary giants.
  • The manuscript is thought to be roughly contemporary with the first printing press.
  • Although they lived on different continents, the two philosophers developed roughly contemporary ideas.
  • The fossils found in this layer are roughly contemporary with the last ice age.
  • The architectural styles of these two cathedrals are roughly contemporary.
  • The historian argued that the two social movements were roughly contemporary and influenced each other.
  • We can infer that the tools are roughly contemporary because they were discovered at the same archaeological depth.