Definition of "contemporaries" []

• Plural form of contemporary. (noun)

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• "Doubtless the heaviest burden of our contemporaries is a consciousness of a divergence between our democratic theory on the one hand, that working people have a right to the intellectual resources of society, and the actual fact on the other hand, that thousands of them are so overburdened with toil that there is no leisure nor energy left for the cultivation of the mind."
• "In his parables, the familiar world of his contemporaries is recast, to become something new and strange -- people showing up late for work receive the same wage as the early birds, layabouts are treated with more favour than their dutiful siblings, his Kingdom is like a mustard seed, and friends and family, we are told, should not be invited to your dinner-parties."
• "During the last four years, while most of her contemporaries from the first part of her career have dropped off the radar or retired from the sport, Reed has been chugging along, picking up World Cup and Pan-Am Games medals and multiple national championships along the way."