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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
This pair of daring temporal adventurers makes hops, skips, and jumps along the time stream with Sam popping up randomly into different bodies throughout history.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2025
The upper limit to our temporal experience is less precise.
—Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
This span of time, usually up to few hundreds of milliseconds, is called the temporal window of integration (TWI).
—Petar Popovski, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2025
These poems invent verbal models of movement through time, their own temporal construction also serving as their subject, always nonchalantly expressed.
—Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2025
The upper limit to our temporal experience is less precise.
—Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
This span of time, usually up to few hundreds of milliseconds, is called the temporal window of integration (TWI).
—Petar Popovski, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2025
These poems invent verbal models of movement through time, their own temporal construction also serving as their subject, always nonchalantly expressed.
—Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for temporal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for temporal
Adjective
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These accents are often what will take an outfit from mundane to a look worth mimicking.—
Samantha Solomon,
Vogue,
10 Sep. 2025
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Other more mundane explanations of disappearances include weather, such as rogue waves, human error and more.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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All of it has a deeper religious meaning, but is also intended to appeal to the secular and spiritual.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Conversely, several secular growth trends are also benefitting the stock, including increasing mobile app usage and the rise of connected TV advertising.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Yet until the samples can be studied in terrestrial labs, their significance remains uncertain.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Forests, the largest terrestrial carbon sinks in the world, are part of the solution.—
Ryan Gellert,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Farrell was a heavy favorite due to his complete physical transformation in The Penguin, becoming barely recognizable to play villainous Oswald.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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With a mix of humor and introspection, Turturro’s speech reflected on his experiences taking care of his late brother with mental challenges and physical illness.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
14 Sep. 2025
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As geologists were realizing that earthly timescales were vast, astronomers began to discover that the same applied to the distances of the cosmos.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Sep. 2025
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It was once widely believed throughout Europe that stars produced an ethereal fluid that somehow influenced earthly affairs.—
Martha Barnette
August 6,
Literary Hub,
6 Aug. 2025
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Sumpter was charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors, including assault likely to produce great bodily injury, battery with serious bodily injury and dissuading a witness, Butte County public records show.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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Tyler Robinson was also arrested on charges of obstruction of justice and the felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, authorities said.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
14 Sep. 2025
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In 2022, the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 paved the way for alternatives to animal testing, and in December 2023, an NIH advisory committee made similar recommendations to develop non-animal methods.—
Rachel Fobar,
Vox,
14 May 2025
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Rendering is a process that transforms animal by-products, like leftover meat and fats...and yes, chicken feet, into usable materials, such as animal feed, fuel, and other industrial products.—
Phil Kafarakis,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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“Temporal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temporal. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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