Today's Word "contemporaneous"
Occurring at the same time
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contemporaneous \kuhn-tem-puh-RAY-nee-uhs\ (adjective) - Originating, existing, or occurring at the same time.
"As we have reason to believe that large areas are affected by the same movement, it is probable that strictly contemporaneous formations have often been accumularted over very wide spaces in the same quarter of the world; but we are frar from having any right to conclude that this has invariably been the case..." -- Charles Darwin, 'The Origin of Species'
Contemporaneous is from Latin contemporaneus, from con-, com-, "with, together" + tempus, tempor-, "time."
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