breaking new ground vs contemporary

breaking new ground

contemporary

noun
  • Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another. 

  • Something existing at the same time. 

adj
  • Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’). 

  • From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous. 

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