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contemporaneous
01
belonging to the same time period
Examples
Jane Austen and Napoleon both lived and worked during the contemporaneous Regency period in England, which spanned the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Historians studied how contemporaneous civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X pursued change through different approaches.
02
happening at the same time
Examples
The stock market crash and great depression were contemporaneous events in the 1930s.
Riots and protests were contemporaneous reactions to the controversial legislation.
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