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cotemporary

British  
/ kəʊˈtɛmpərərɪ /

adjective

  1. a variant of contemporary

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Would Lorin Stein, the editor of the Paris Review, still have declared in the New York Times book review that it “solved a big problem of the cotemporary novel?”

From Slate Jul. 7, 2014

We look in vain," says a writer, "for any cotemporary notice of the Gospels, or Christ the subject of the Gospels, outside of the New Testament.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

She was Queen of Connacht, and was cotemporary with Cleopatra; but if the Egyptian queen is mentioned in history she is forgotten in legend, while Mab has lived in legend for more than eighteen centuries.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

A cotemporary MS. of part of the first book, also preserved at Durham.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 108, November 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

His success in so many departments proves that had he cultivated but one or two, he might have surpassed all cotemporary competition.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

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