Synonyms for contemporaries
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1. coevals, contemporaries, generationnoun

   all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

   Synonyms:
   generation, coevals, genesis, multiplication, propagation

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1. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

   Famous shipbuilders such as Donald Mackay referred to a certain part of his ships as having a 'forepeak'. Has anyone discovered any of his contemporaries as seeking to exceed his prowess by incorporating five, six or more 'peaks' in their ship design?

2. Hugh Dugan:

   The U.S. has always been identified with such forces operating beyond the scrutiny of its democratic institutions: the Masonic influence was regarded as a driving force, a deep state, taking root as early as George Washington with his contemporaries’ blessing and participation.

3. Oscar Wilde:

   Why was I born with such contemporaries?

4. Alessandro Rosina:

   In southern Europe, reciprocal help is an important value, for emotional and material reasons. Young people leave home later than their northern European contemporaries. They live close to their parents, so their parents can help with child-rearing and then they, in turn, take care of elderly parents. Because of COVID, this system is now in crisis.

5. Alan Valentine:

   For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.