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con·tem·po·raries
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Princeton's WordNet
coevals, contemporaries, generationnoun
all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
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contemporariesnoun
Plural form of contemporary.
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contemporaries
Contemporaries are people or things that exist, live, or occur at the same time period or in the same era. They are often used to refer to individuals who are similar in age, who might be working in the same field, or share similar interests or ideas.
Webster Dictionary
Contemporaries
of Contemporary
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of contemporaries in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of contemporaries in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of contemporaries in a Sentence
The U.S. has always been identified with such forces operating beyond the scrutiny of its democratic institutions: the Masonic influence was regarded as a driving force, a deep state, taking root as early as George Washington with his contemporaries’ blessing and participation.
Either of my contemporaries or of my successors, will, by means of the method when once established, be able to discover other theorems in addition, which have not yet occurred to me.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
In southern Europe, reciprocal help is an important value, for emotional and material reasons. Young people leave home later than their northern European contemporaries. They live close to their parents, so their parents can help with child-rearing and then they, in turn, take care of elderly parents. Because of COVID, this system is now in crisis.
The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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