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  • noun Plural form of coeval.

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  • noun all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

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Examples

  • And this proficience in navigation and discoveries may plant also an expectation of the further proficience and augmentation of all sciences, because it may seem that they are ordained by God to be coevals, that is, to meet in one age.

    The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

  • My thoughts are often pensively turning on the enumeration of those I may call my coevals; and many of them of long acquaintance who have been called away within these few years.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

  • My thoughts are often pensively turning on the enumeration of those I may call my coevals; and many of them of long acquaintance who have been called away within these few years.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

  • But the gauzy Norman Rockwell normality he invoked won't persuade the electorate at a time of 10 percent unemployment, the Damocles sword that hangs over his head for 2012, when voters will get a chance to weigh in directly on his presidency, which he has largely placed in the hands of Ivy League meritocrats more concerned with protecting their wealthy coevals than the general public.

    Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference Jacob Heilbrunn 2010

  • The authentic portrait of the "Lost Generation" Gertrude Stein's phrase for Hemingway and his coevals.

    The Slow Crack-Up Allan Massie 2011

  • But the gauzy Norman Rockwell normality he invoked won't persuade the electorate at a time of 10 percent unemployment, the Damocles sword that hangs over his head for 2012, when voters will get a chance to weigh in directly on his presidency, which he has largely placed in the hands of Ivy League meritocrats more concerned with protecting their wealthy coevals than the general public.

    Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference Jacob Heilbrunn 2010

  • Her fictional worlds, like those of her best-selling coevals Wally Lamb and Khaled Hosseini, are marked by trauma, persecution and suffering, relieved only intermittently by freakish moments of well-being.

    The Reigning Queen of Victim Lit Sam Sacks 2011

  • "Snooki" is the stage name of 23-year-old Miss Nicole Polizzi, who shares a beach house with seven coevals in the reality-TV show Jersey Shore.

    Other Comments 2011

  • The collection itself was patchy, weakened by the kind of fabulism and look-at-me rhetorical gimmicks found in books by his coevals Jonathan Lethem and Jonathan Safran Foer.

    Life With and Without Tradition Sam Sacks 2012

  • Coming from the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, this retrospective of Neel's portraits is an exhaustive gathering of her loosely painted but psychologically acute portraits of her friends, loved ones, and coevals in the mid-century New York City art scene.

    ARTINFO: Top 10 Shows to See in London 2010

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