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as in mundane
having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven
do not worry about temporal concerns, but instead focus on spiritual matters
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as in secular
not involving religion or religious matters
administrators on campus are in place to deal with students' temporal needs, and spiritual advisors are available to help students with their nontemporal needs
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Recent Examples of temporal
The strategic effect of this shift is not only material but temporal.
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Researchers then sifted through the trail camera photos, identified the animals and analyzed their frequency, temporal patterns and other data.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Between June and September 2023, Dale had a deep plane neck and facelift, forehead lift, blepharoplasty (upper and lower), fat transfer to the face, temporal lift and a chemical peel.
—Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
In purchasing labor-power as a commodity, capitalists claim temporal control over living labor in the process of production.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Researchers then sifted through the trail camera photos, identified the animals and analyzed their frequency, temporal patterns and other data.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Between June and September 2023, Dale had a deep plane neck and facelift, forehead lift, blepharoplasty (upper and lower), fat transfer to the face, temporal lift and a chemical peel.
—Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
In purchasing labor-power as a commodity, capitalists claim temporal control over living labor in the process of production.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temporal
Adjective
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Many are multipurpose, mundane items that can be used on the body and even in your diet.—
Essence,
Essence,
21 Oct. 2025
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Let’s go outside the mundane and what people know us as every day.—
Jack Irvin,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Scheeres’s work also inspired me to research the troubled teen industry, the hidden arm of America’s prison industrial complex, a largely unregulated network of religious and secular therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness programs, private youth programs, and drug rehabilitation centers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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The movie subsequently gave its monsters a more secular origin story, the spawn of science run amok rather than some malevolent force of evil.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Instead of running physical cables that connect your home or RV to the greater internet, Starlink uses a series of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites that communicate between your home dish and a terrestrial gateway somewhere else on Earth.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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Their deals have come against a backdrop of a post-peak TV era where terrestrial television is in decline and the new normal is consolidation.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In a world where fake medical implants, counterfeit microchips, and cloned devices can threaten lives, money, and security, proving that a physical object is truly genuine is a major challenge.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
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The onslaught has also reduced churches and town halls across northeastern Ukraine to rubble, and with them, much of the physical and mental infrastructure of life for the country’s youth.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In early Christian thinking, its connotations of languor and listlessness, within the spirit no less than the body, lent it the status of a sin—a turning aside from God for the sake of earthly sorrow.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Ordinary matter makes up everything from the cosmic (planets and stars) to the earthly (people and trees).—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Sara and Brian were arrested and charged with child neglect without great bodily harm, according to the WCSO.—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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The unidentified 14-year-old student was charged with assault and battery causing serious bodily injury and arraigned Thursday in Fall River Juvenile Court.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Not quite plant, not quite animal; delicious and wild and rare.—
Callie Sumlin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
15 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, dogs were more likely to respond to animal stimuli than to non-animal stimuli.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 July 2025
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“Temporal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temporal. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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