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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Alexa Bliss Saraya and Alexa Bliss, despite their concurrent presence on WWE's main roster, never having a sustained rivalry.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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Oh, and Playboi Carti notched the biggest Billboard 200 debut of his career, as well as 30 concurrent Hot 100 entries, thanks to his culture-dominating Music LP.—
Christopher Claxton,
Billboard,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Woods won the 2019 Masters because his contemporaries got aggressive and landed in the water, while Woods pounded the center of the green with a safe shot to par.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Clay and his contemporaries understood that fledgling American manufacturers needed time to grow without being undermined by cheaper imports.—
Tim Overton,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 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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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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According to contemporaneous messages and testimony from Kahlon, he was told that decision was made by Musk.—
Joshua Kaplan,
ProPublica,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Coeval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coeval. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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