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contemporaneously

UK/kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli//kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/

contemporaneously adverb: in a contemporaneous way: in the same period of time.

Adverb

contemporaneously (not comparable)

  1. In a contemporaneous way: in the same period of time.
    • And with Sellars’ shift to the centerground of philosophical interest, we have, all of a sudden, two such books appearing almost contemporaneously.2008 April 3, Jaroslav Peregrin, “Book Reviews”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 131–135
    • CNN and more than a dozen media outlets and groups asked US District Judge Tanya Chutkan for permission to “record and telecast” the March 2024 trial or for the court to “contemporaneously publish on YouTube its internally administered audiovisual livestreams and recordings of the proceedings.”2023 October 5, Devan Cole, “Media outlets ask judge for permission to broadcast Trump’s federal election subversion trial next year”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023

Synonyms of contemporaneously

Origin of contemporaneously

From contemporaneous + -ly, from Latin contemporāneus, from co- (“together”) + tempus (“time”).

Questions about contemporaneously

What does contemporaneously mean?
Contemporaneously means in a contemporaneous way: in the same period of time.
What part of speech is contemporaneously?
Contemporaneously is an adverb.
How do you pronounce contemporaneously?
Contemporaneously is pronounced /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/ (UK).

Words near contemporaneously in the dictionary

  1. contemporanea expositio
  2. contemporanean
  3. contemporaneans
  4. contemporaneity
  5. contemporaneous
  6. contemporaneously
  7. contemporaneousness
  8. contemporaries
  9. contemporarily
  10. contemporariness
  11. contemporary

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