Contemporaries

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of contemporary form-of, plural
  2. 2
    all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age wordnet

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coevalscoevalsgeneration

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"Of course Darwin, like many of his contemporaries, wished to be seen as following the Newtonian method."

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