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