How to Use contemporaneous in a Sentence

contemporaneous

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  • A lot of footage that was shown looked contemporaneous and seemed to be coming from inside the cult.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2023
  • He was questioned about it by the agents, who took contemporaneous notes.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 Feb. 2020
  • This is a contention that isn’t backed by a single contemporaneous quote or piece of hard evidence in the book.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2021
  • Despite being set in 2036, the series story arc is contemporaneous in that it is set in a world in the aftermath of a deadly virus.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 July 2022
  • All the while, Koh threads contemporaneous and historic events in Korea into the background.
    — Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The recollections confirmed contemporaneous reporting on the tenor of the heated phone call and of Trump's anger with Pence.
    — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 16 June 2022
  • The absence of such a pattern and the lack of contemporaneous evidence is why the allegations against Kavanaugh did not sink him.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Vasquez also asked Heard about the lack of contemporaneous medical records that would document the abuse.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 May 2022
  • And in New York, Tommy Hilfiger is bringing his see now, buy now carnival back home for the first time in three years, complete with a contemporaneous metaverse show.
    — New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Further evidence comes from the fact that Conan Doyle killed off Holmes in the first place, and from the contemporaneous correspondence with his mother.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The league’s arguments focused on a handful of the cases against Watson, which the NFL thought had the strongest contemporaneous evidence.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Think of them like a lite Campbell Conference version of the contemporaneous Flyers out East.
    — Colin Fleming, SI.com, 22 May 2017
  • The power of his work, says Ms Kim, stems from his dual role as artist and witness—not just through the contemporaneous recording of violence, but in teasing out responses that stretch over decades.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • Toronto this year also boasts of a U.K. film set in contemporaneous times that does not draw a direct parallel to history but is rather informed by it.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The general counsel of the Sierra Club, contemporaneous to Paris being signed, said critical things of the agreement.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2017
  • That sympathy for Tony led contemporaneous critics to ask if people were watching the show in the wrong way, or if our enjoyment pointed to a deficiency of the heart.
    — New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In that case, a contemporaneous forex capital gains election is better on the Section 988 trades.
    — Robert Green, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • But for many British Jews, an altogether more contemporaneous subject is also likely to be on the agenda at the festive meal.
    — James Masters, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Some of that contemporaneous sensation had to go for this adaptation, most notably any direct reference to timely headlines of the day when the show was filmed.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • In 1956, according to a contemporaneous New York Times report, two men knocked on the door of his Manhattan apartment, then began beating him.
    — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • In addition to contemporaneous comics, architecture, and music, the film explores the influence of the space race on everyday life of the 1960s.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 12 May 2017
  • Even the picture’s frame, contemporaneous but not original, is of a deep black wood with gold embellishments.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Prosecutors drew both scenes—which until now have not been part of the public record—from contemporaneous notes that Pence provided to the Special Counsel.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The show’s first five episodes (of its eight) are a powerful crescendo of agony, as depicted both in shots in which heat and stench seem to come through the television and in contemporaneous news footage, still jarring and heartbreaking years later.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
  • That includes no contemporaneous mentions of such a story in The Times-Picayune’s archives, which go back to 1837 — and the editors of which likely would have loved the headlines such a story would have generated.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Comey's testimony to Mueller was locked in months ago and to some extent the release of Comey's contemporaneous memos last week from his encounters with the President served to scoop his own story.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 Apr. 2018
  • There’s no particular lesson to be drawn from these clusters of contemporaneous deaths, of course.
    — William McDonald, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Context: The church has not apologized for the priesthood ban, instead claiming its removal was contemporaneous with a revelation from God to then-leaders of the faith.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 22 July 2024
  • The series didn’t push the controversy button as much as other contemporaneous sitcoms like All in the Family and Maude.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2024
  • That beach was tropical, partly because the contemporaneous climate was extremely warm, but also because Wisconsin, at the time, was near the equator.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024

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