Washington's contemporaries saw in him what they wanted to see.

But what did contemporaries mean when they used the word?

They had all been contemporaries out of college about the same time.

Like many contemporaries, little is known of his early years.

Most of her contemporaries had only good things to say about the work.

He had that in common with most of his contemporaries.

"He had something to say to everyone, from his contemporaries to people today."

At that time, the B-534 was well ahead of its contemporaries.

He was however not a popular man with all his contemporaries.

But that was far more than many of their contemporaries ever did.

Actually, he was asked to name some of his favorite contemporaries.

He was considered to be the best teacher in the country by his contemporaries.

Europe took very quickly to him, maybe more so than to any of his contemporaries.

Perhaps, like many of his contemporaries, he could not write it down.

You have killed over a hundred of your own contemporaries.

It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries.

Looking at them now no one would have suggested they were contemporaries.

Art contemporaries and critics of the time were not kind.

In contrast to many of his contemporaries, he was quite free.

This must be why some of her contemporaries have kept their day jobs.

"I can well imagine how some of your contemporaries might feel that way."

What can be done, however, is to let us hear those records as their contemporaries heard them.

She both lives and works downtown, as do many of her contemporaries.

He was the first of my contemporaries to marry and to have a child.

But Condo has never had much in common with his contemporaries.

His later work had more to do with contemporary issues.

Enough to keep me going for a little while, although not really contemporary or current.

There was more give and take in two contemporary works.

Could the idea of a public even be found in contemporary American culture?

But it has a great deal to say about contemporary experience.

Much of my life had been spent with contemporary art.

But it is also a fact of life in contemporary American society.

The public and media are more used to contemporary art now.

These focus on contemporary issues and are open to the public.

At other times, it is much more recent or even contemporary.

This time, the two programs in the run focus on contemporary works.

That might seem like reason enough for the Met to support contemporary art.

It's too bad there's so little here in the way of contemporary work.

The contemporary section of the show has also come under fire.

He developed an interest in contemporary American music as well.

On the way to the store I run into a friend, a contemporary.

Some are very traditional, using the best of the old and the contemporary.

Again, it was in the contemporary language and she did not understand.

It has become a contemporary political issue in a number of countries.

She is known for her work at the contemporary music scene.

I thought of what he was saying about why contemporary, serious music did not have that energy.

It would be hard to think of any contemporary American music more important than this.

"I knew there would be more contemporary art this year."

"Only recently have I involved myself much with contemporary music," he said.

I try politics, with even less success than contemporary art.