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- Dictionarycontemporary/kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/
adjective
- 1. living or occurring at the same time: "the event was recorded by a contemporary historian"
- 2. belonging to or occurring in the present: "the tension and complexities of our contemporary society" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another: "he was a contemporary of Darwin"
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8 hours ago · The contemporary Gothic, drawing on an already fragmented and heterogenic artistic tradition, is less a genre than a vestigial type of writing that resuscitates older horrors and formulas and filters them through the echo chambers of a modern preoccupation with the social value of transgressive literature.
1 day ago · Clue & Answer Definitions. SCREEN (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm. test or examine for the presence of disease or infection. SCREEN (noun) a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles. a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something.
8 hours ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in Early Medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
8 hours ago · Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to reproduce and recover. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively.
1 day ago · Meditation has been of interest to a wide variety of modern Jews. In modern Jewish practice, one of the best known meditative practices is called "hitbodedut" (התבודדות, alternatively transliterated as "hisbodedus"), and is explained in Kabbalistic, Hasidic, and Mussar writings, especially the Hasidic method of Rabbi Nachman of Breslav.
8 hours ago · The Caribbean (/ ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ən, k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ən / KARR-ih-BEE-ən, kə-RIB-ee-ən, locally / ˈ k ær ɪ b iː æ n / KARR-ih-bee-an; Spanish: el Caribe; French: les Caraïbes; Dutch: de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and ...
8 hours ago · t. e. Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z ), also known as Zoomers, [1] [2] [3] is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years.
