This is true of their contemporary equivalents as well.

Now the Dole campaign would have the viewer believe that illegal drugs are the contemporary equivalent of a nuclear holocaust.

This piece is the true contemporary equivalent of the Ryoanji garden, a classic for the present.

For them it is the contemporary equivalent of the exotic.

The world has no contemporary equivalent of Hitler.

The 4th-century mosaics in the churches of Rome have few contemporary equivalents elsewhere.

Some of us are seen as the contemporary equivalent (but without the servants and cheap gin).

This had gone to support traditional forms (and content) of education, which (like their contemporary equivalents in England) were firmly non-utilitarian.

And no one has proposed the contemporary equivalent of "Bert the Turtle" - yet.

Just a generation ago, only 1 in 17 black families even made the contemporary equivalent of $50,000 or more.