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Six example sentences with contemporaries, each labelled with its topic.
Her contemporaries painted saints and battles, while she filled canvas after canvas with kitchen tables and cut lemons.
Art
Bach's contemporaries knew him mainly as an organist, and his choral works waited a century for a wide audience.
Music
Students rated themselves against their contemporaries rather than against any standard, so the same score felt different in each class.
Psychology
Jane Austen's contemporaries wrote gothic thrillers, while she filled her pages with dances, letters, and awkward proposals.
Literature
Darwin's contemporaries mostly dismissed the theory at first, and the oldest naturalists never accepted it at all.
Science
His contemporaries were bigger and faster, but he outlasted all of them by rebuilding his shot every summer.
Basketball
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