as in concurrent
existing or occurring at the same period of time
two stars thought to be coeval because they have nearly the same mass and brightness
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as in contemporary
a person who lives at the same time or is about the same age as another
somewhat surprisingly, Saint Patrick and Attila the Hun were coevals
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Recent Examples of coeval
Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
Her letters to Bradley demonstrate that the idea was coeval with her wish to be a poet and her discovery of romantic feeling for girls, and that it was fully formed as early as her adolescence.
—Langdon Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
Tribalism and clannishness are coeval with human social life.
—Stephen Holmes, The New York Review of Books, 17 Jan. 2019
Adjective
Their personalities and their pain are made almost exactly coeval, with little telling slippage between.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
Her letters to Bradley demonstrate that the idea was coeval with her wish to be a poet and her discovery of romantic feeling for girls, and that it was fully formed as early as her adolescence.
—Langdon Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
Tribalism and clannishness are coeval with human social life.
—Stephen Holmes, The New York Review of Books, 17 Jan. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coeval
Adjective
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Because of that, drawing flourished as a wholly independent medium in the 1970s, thanks to the concurrent rise of idea-intensive Conceptual art.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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Moreover, a part-time H-1B that is cap-subject can be paired with a part-time or full-time concurrent H-1B at a traditionally cap-subject employer.—
Sophie Alcorn,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Extensive renovation The Martins took on an extensive upgrade to make the Pacific Heights home contemporary and their own.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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The Shuberts’ trajectory from poverty to showbiz royalty paralleled that of their contemporaries Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, and the Warner brothers, who pioneered the American film industry, first in the East, then in California.—
Frank Rich,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In such systems, provisioning large workloads with synchronous processing and very low latency requirements can be challenging.—
Ravi Laudya,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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Usually, migrations do not need synchronous processing and can be handled asynchronously without any manual effort.—
Ravi Laudya,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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With a lockable synchronic-tilt mechanism and special Z-Shape design, the Kaiser 2 can accommodate a weight up to 180kg, quite a bit more than normal mechanisms on office chairs and the back can be reclined to an angle of 160 degrees which can be locked when not in rocking mode.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
11 Oct. 2021
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For his last runway collection, unveiled in September, Michele constructed a parallel universe of side-by-side shows separated by a wall that when lifted revealed twins in identical looks in synchronic stride.—
Colleen Barry,
Fortune,
24 Nov. 2022
Adjective
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The timing of these changes were roughly coincident with clarification of Information Blocking rules and Epic’s introduction of its own competing product.—
Seth Joseph,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2024
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Another suggestion is that there were two more or less coincident eruptions, one each in northern and southern hemispheres.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
26 July 2011
Adjective
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There were no contemporaneous accounts written by Omanis, or written in Arabic, that recorded with such specificity the life and times of Omani tribespeople of that time.—
Chris Wallace,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2025
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This is also why the contemporaneous criticisms of the picture as style over substance ring so hollow today.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Coeval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coeval. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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