Contemporary
Contemporary adjective - Existing or occurring at the same period of time.
Started and contemporary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Started" instead an adjective "Contemporary".
Started
Contemporary and started are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contemporary" instead an adjective "Started".
Both words in one sentence
- Instead of being solely contemporary R&B and Urban pop their music started to veer into Alt./Pop territory after their first 2 albums.
Source: Broken Base / Music -
Setting Update: The stories are contemporary, despite being based on a book series that started in the 1920s.
Source: Series / The Saint -
She was roughly contemporary with Charles Dickens, but started writing later than he did.
Source: Creator / George Eliot
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Started and Contemporary. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contemporary/started
Contemporary & Started. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/contemporary/started>.
Started or Contemporary. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/contemporary/started.
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