Sentence examples for contemporary used from inspiring English sources

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/ lasting for a limited period of time; an abbreviation of "contemporary" used to describe the feeling of ephemerality surrounding today's art and design furniture — the objects as well as their respective markets, e.g., "The Hirst would be great with the Newson sofa, but it might look too 'temporary — especially since the economy went kablooey".

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Following the "different route" motif, the character designs were made more contemporary, using modern clothing over the more medieval look of the previous Castlevania installments.

("Veiled" is the word most contemporaries used).

Her contemporaries used to call her "Popstar Trace".

One of his contemporaries used to grumble that he might have left a decent estate if he had not been such a fool about art.

"Virtue" translates arete, which Socrates' contemporaries used of any sort of excellence that leads to success.

As children continue to grow, the modern equivalent of the shows my contemporaries used to enjoy, the 1990's Ghostwriter, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

His contemporaries used to say that Lasker used a "psychological" approach to the game, and even that he sometimes deliberately played inferior moves to confuse opponents.

Both were written in Koine Greek while her contemporaries used either Katharevousa or the so-called Demotic version of Modern Greek.

Nonetheless, an inspection of the success of their contemporaries using atomic models shows why this movement failed.

These composers' styles were untouched by "the influence of their sophisticated European contemporaries", using modal or pentatonic scales or melodies and eschewing the European rules of harmony.

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