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contemporary

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contemporary (komparativ more contemporary, superlativ most contemporary)

  1. nåtidig, nåtidens; nåværende
    • We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year. 
      American Scientist, «Rereading Darwin», 100. årgang, utgave 1, 2012, Robert L. Dorit
  2. samtidig
    He was taller than most his contemporary Englishmen. – Han var høyere enn de fleste samtidige engelskmenn.

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(nåtidens) modern
(samtidig) contemporaneous