Contemporary
Contemporary adjective - Existing or occurring at the same period of time.
Once is an antonym for contemporary.
Once
Once adjective - Having been such at some previous time.
Usage example: the once child star is now a lawyer in the entertainment industry
Contemporary is an antonym for once.
Both words in one sentence
- Contemporary hand grenades (thus Grenadier units) and rockets - like those used in China - only worked once.
Source: It Only Works Once - The sketches themselves varied from parodies and take thats of contemporary (and not-so-contemporary) media to sketches based around certain characters, who would appear once an episode.
Source: Series / Fast Forward -
In Fate/Zero she actually is mistaken for Jeanne d'Arc by a character who was Jeanne's contemporary: the Caster of that Holy Grail War, who once was Jeanne's companion Gilles de Rais.
Source: Jeanne d'Archétype
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