contemporary account

collocation in English

meaningsofcontemporaryandaccount

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contemporary
adjective
uk
/kənˈtem.pər.ər.i/us
/kənˈtem.pə.rer.i/
existing or happening now, and therefore ...
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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 ofcontemporaryandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This, however, must be recognized in acontemporaryaccountof phronésis.
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In a brief and readable style it gives an overallcontemporaryaccountof interviewing schedules and ratings scales, and many of the problems of psychiatric classification and diagnosis.
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That will give us a morecontemporaryaccountand make the figures more relevant.
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Fortunately, a morecontemporaryaccount, not dulled by the passage of 40 years, has subsequently surfaced.
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The following year, acontemporaryaccountdescribed polecat skins as a drug on the market.
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According to at least onecontemporaryaccount, she died without a trumpet or a groan.
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Unfortunately, thecontemporaryaccountdoes not name this pioneer female sponsor.
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Acontemporaryaccountdescribes her as lying on the ground near the innermost gate to the castle.
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By contrast, onecontemporaryaccountreported, in 1833, that for days the city gaol had been entirely empty.
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Onecontemporaryaccountof his portrayal of the character described it as having an intensity bordering on frenzy.
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Acontemporaryaccount, written in anticipation of its completion to its original plan, describes what was intended.
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No record survives of the outcome of the case, but nocontemporaryaccountspeaks of the trial by battle actually taking place.
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It was said in acontemporaryaccountthat his entire material wealth at that time was composed of a sizable library.
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It then provides acontemporaryaccount, explaining that the morals of individuals vary between different states, which allows individuals to vote with their feet.
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They sold their possessions for half their value, noted acontemporaryaccount, and named the place of their settlement after their natal town.
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This is the onlycontemporaryaccountof the battle, and the paucity of detail led many later historians to invent their own.
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Acontemporaryaccountdescribes the excitement produced by his utterances; his outspokenness won for him increased respect, though he made few converts.
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The surviving orchestral parts of the 1789 score do not list a composer/arranger, and no extantcontemporaryaccountof the original production mentions a composer.
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Onecontemporaryaccountdescribes broken pieces of stick candy being sold in paper containers, being presented by candy sellers to rural people as something special, and commanding a high price.
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