contemporary event

collocation in English

meaningsofcontemporaryandevent

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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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event
noun[C]
uk
/ɪˈvent/
us
/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofcontemporaryandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The secondcontemporaryeventof some political importance is illustrated in plate 79 in the upper right corner (fig. 4).
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The tapestries are notable highly for their portrayal of acontemporaryevent.
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This is important evidence of the degree to which institutional support is insulated from contemporary events.
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His agile movements between these theorists, historical texts, contemporary events and architecture and landscape are impressive and literary.
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Sometimes in analyzing contemporary events the time lag between the completion of the work and its publication makes an important difference.
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From a historical point of view, this is the most interesting piece of work as it interprets an almostcontemporaryeventto the making of the chest.
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Among social scientists historians constitute an exception as far as the obligation to speak about contemporary events is concerned.
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That what we now see was meant to be a generic image of the religious festival is problematic since no other temple sculpture depicts acontemporaryeventinvolving mortals.
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Again, contemporary events offer powerful demonstration of such arguments.
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It places them in a sequence that relates them to contemporary events they knew.
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In that particular example, the historical perspective serves to reframe the understanding of contemporary events.
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It is of course in such revised texts, or new compositions, that we might hope to find indications or reflections of his views on contemporary events.
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Citizens created a public space for themselves where they could participate in contemporary events that would otherwise be closed to them; and popular humor was a powerful instrument of subversion.
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Tonna's use of the family to anchor an anti-toleration movement recurs throughout the century, but it is also modified in important ways by contemporary events.
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History books and history teaching tend, as we know, to stop at a safe distance from contemporary events.
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Nevertheless, there is a special difficulty in achieving balance when dealing with contemporary events and personalities.
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We can afford to await the outcome of contemporary events in the confidence which is born of our great history.
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He was deeply interested in contemporary events and always made very shrewd comments.
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There is a connection between those two contemporary events.
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