contemporaneous account
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontemporaneousandaccount
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contemporaneous
adjective
uk/kənˌtem.pəˈreɪ.ni.əs/us/kənˌtem.pəˈreɪ.ni.əs/
happening or existing at the same period ...
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account
noun
uk/əˈkaʊnt/us/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofcontemporaneousandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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According to onecontemporaneousaccount, the women were sighted by scouting plane and then located by a rescue party.
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Onecontemporaneousaccountdescribes corridors and floors whose color and design echoed those on ships.
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As memoirs occupied a middle position between contemporaneous accounts and historical narratives, so too did they deal with their material in a manner that was both contemporaneous and already detached.
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Contemporaneous accounts of confessions are now written down and sometimes tape-recorded, but the written accounts are always signed by the arrested person.
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This description of the declaration may be apocryphal, as only the last four words appear in contemporaneous accounts.
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Some contemporaneous accounts indicate that many vendors were frustrated by the fair's refusal to award such prizes.
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According to contemporaneous accounts, an estimated 6,000 people died from the disaster's effects across the province.
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She held the women's altitude record for nearly three decades, and according to several contemporaneous accounts was regarded as the first woman in space.
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Most of these listed have been diagnosed based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them.
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Many hypothetical extinct macaws were based only on contemporaneous accounts, but these species are considered dubious today.
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Most contemporaneous accounts from overseas took the opposite view.
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In fact, contemporaneous accounts show the score was 60 at halftime.
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His name never appears in any independent contemporaneous accounts of events of the time or in any biographical accounts about the others.
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Contemporaneous accounts speak of the grass being slippery with blood.
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