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- adverb In a
contemporary way.
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Volumes have been written about French courtesans who've serviced men of all rank; more contemporarily, French literature and cinema has brought to America a world where innumerable affairs within affairs are nestled like Russian dolls in snug, libidinous stacks.
Debra Ollivier: Why Americans Are As Adulterous As The French: Questioning a Tired Cliche Debra Ollivier 2011
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Volumes have been written about French courtesans who've serviced men of all rank; more contemporarily, French literature and cinema has brought to America a world where innumerable affairs within affairs are nestled like Russian dolls in snug, libidinous stacks.
Debra Ollivier: Why Americans Are As Adulterous As The French: Questioning a Tired Cliche Debra Ollivier 2011
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Bartleby and I sat facing each another for a few moments which then became somewhat awkward when neither of us proceeded to say anything to break the silence that is, within a contemporarily accepted and socially-appropriate amount of time.
Things You Can Do, Some Can't Be Done Joseph M. Owens 2011
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Vickery, though a historian, is contemporarily minded, so keeps mentioning the present in her links – at one point, on Wednesday's programme, about riots, she said: "Obviously they can't be on mobile phones to each other saying, We're moving on now to Fortnum and Mason's" – and much of the programme is recorded on location.
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Mr. Elling used the big band for a Claude Thornhill-like ballad effect on "More Than You Know" and, more contemporarily, enmeshed himself within the brass and reed sections as he scatted "Tumbleweed" from Michael Brecker 's final album, "Pilgrimage".
Birthday Wishes, Halloween Dreams Will Friedwald 2011
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The brilliance of the 111th United States House of Representatives with a Democratic majority is not to be denied contemporarily or in the perspective of history.
Stephen Herrington: Before the Curtain Falls on the 111th Congress, I Pray You Hear Stephen Herrington 2010
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The brilliance of the 111th United States House of Representatives with a Democratic majority is not to be denied contemporarily or in the perspective of history.
Stephen Herrington: Before the Curtain Falls on the 111th Congress, I Pray You Hear Stephen Herrington 2010
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The brilliance of the 111th United States House of Representatives with a Democratic majority is not to be denied contemporarily or in the perspective of history.
Stephen Herrington: Before the Curtain Falls on the 111th Congress, I Pray You Hear Stephen Herrington 2010
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The brilliance of the 111th United States House of Representatives with a Democratic majority is not to be denied contemporarily or in the perspective of history.
Stephen Herrington: Before the Curtain Falls on the 111th Congress, I Pray You Hear Stephen Herrington 2010
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Nell comes across as intelligent and witty as she uses double entendres to get the better of hypocrites who claim to know what is morally best for others (sounds so contemporarily familiar).
The King’s Favorite-Susan Holloway Scott « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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