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belonging to the same time period
- 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.
- The contemporaneous rise of both social media and smartphones changed how people interact.
- The contemporaneous discoveries by the two scientists were groundbreaking in their respective fields.
- The museum exhibit highlights contemporaneous artists from the early 20th century.
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happening at the same time
- The stock market crash and great depression were contemporaneous events in the 1930s.
- Riots and protests were contemporaneous reactions to the controversial legislation.
- Inflation and rising interest rates tend to be contemporaneous economic conditions.