Rick Atkinson

I conduct very few interviews with veterans. The contemporaneous, or near-contemporaneous, record for WWII is so spectacularly deep that latter-day recollections are largely unnecessary for a historian. Of course, in considering any account, I'm looking for additional sources that can confirm or enlarge that version of events.

American Author

Alan Furst

I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.

Timothee Chalamet

Sometimes if I'm in my head before a take, I'll just like to reach out to the closest thing to me - the wall or a sharp edge - and just push into it. That way, my physical experience is totally contemporaneous and not in the clouds.

American Actor

Celine Sciamma

I like 'Girlhood' because it has this universal feeling, and that's also the project of the film, to bring very contemporaneous characters into the big fiction, and the classical idea of a heroine's emancipation.

Jack Schwartz

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

Scientist

Sanjaya Baru

While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.

Indian Public Servant

Use it when emphasizing that events occur simultaneously within a specific historical or chronological timeframe.

Time Specific

It's often used in academic or formal writing to discuss events or phenomena in history, science, or art.

Academic Texts

'Contemporaneous' is not always interchangeable with 'contemporary' despite their similarity.

Not Interchangeable

 Now, this isn't just a contemporaneous question. This is something we've faced several times over the last few centuries. When the telegraph came along, it was clear that it was going to globalize the news industry. What would this lead to? Well, obviously, it would lead to world peace.

Clay Shirky: How the...

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