People or things that exist or live at the same time; contemporaries.
From coeval (Latin coaevus) + -s (plural suffix). The plural form refers to multiple people or objects sharing the same time period.
Darwin and Wallace were coevals who independently developed the theory of evolution—they lived at the same time and made the same breakthrough, which shows how ideas emerge when conditions are right.
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