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Collocations for contemporary - adj.

1. belonging to the same time as sb/sth else

VERBS

be

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ADVERB

exactly
nearly
broadly (BrE), roughly
a period broadly contemporary with the Shang dynasty

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PREPOSITION

with
a composer contemporary with Beethoven

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2. modern

VERBS

be

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ADVERB

decidedly, thoroughly, very
His work is very contemporary.

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Contemporary is used with these nouns:
ballet, architect, architecture, art, artist, capitalism, classic, composer, context, criticism, culture, dance, debate, doctrine, drama, economics, economist, equivalent, example, fashion, feminism, fiction, furniture, historian, history, linguistics, literature, manifestation, music, musician, novel, novelist, painter, painting, phenomenon, philosopher, philosophy, photography, poet, poetry, politics, practice, relevance, religion, repertoire, scene, scholar, sculptor, setting, society, spin, style, taste, theatre, theme, thinker, thinking, understanding, usage, viewer, world, writer, writing

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