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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
Wiktionary
contemporariesnoun
Plural form of contemporary.
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
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.
Famous shipbuilders such as Donald Mackay referred to a certain part of his ships as having a 'forepeak'. Has anyone discovered any of his contemporaries as seeking to exceed his prowess by incorporating five, six or more 'peaks' in their ship design?
The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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