Contemporaneous(ly) or something?

Or using then-{descriptor}

A little tough to give a fully general template here, but my first instinct is to add "as was then the case" somewhere.

Contemporaneous

"Contemporary" is a bit simpler. 😅

Yeah, I always seem to want one pithy word haha, its not always or even often meant to be

I feel like that one wouldnt really fit exactly, but I couldnt put to words why that is. I guess I'll have to see when the context calls for it someday

contemporaneous = existing, occurring, or originating during the same time.
social and political events that were contemporaneous with each other

contemporary = marked by characteristics of the present period
The story is old, but has importance to contemporary audiences.

current = occurring in or existing at the present time, presently elapsing, generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment
current needs, current ideas about education

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/

I get the feeling that current might be the word you’re looking for.

I honestly get the sense that "as was then the case" might be the phrase without a word if its not contemporaneous

Thank you tho

Ok, so something not necessarily tied to the present time?

Something like: “The ancient Egyptians used copper chisels, as that was the best metal available at the time.” In that sense, you could say that those two things were indeed contemporaneous, because they occurred at the same time with one another.

• was the best contemporaneous metal
• was the best metal contenporaneously

Maybe one of those, contemporaneously seems to encapsulate "best metal as/per what was currently/then available"

I was just reading this article when I stumbled upon this quote:

The most severely affected areas were in western and southern Ireland—where the Irish language was dominant—hence, in Irish, the period was contemporaneously known as an Drochshaol.

So, in the 1840s and 1850s, there was a famine in Ireland, and locals at the time called Drochshaol. Those two things happened long ago, so they aren't contemporary any more. However, they happened at the same time with one another, so that's why they are contemporaneous. That's an odd word you don't see every day, but here it's entirely justified.

Good find, it sounds very much like contemporaneously is at least a not improper choice