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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 linocut medium itself performs this temporal multiplicity.
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Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
For the launch colorway, a vivid graphic may initially bring to mind heat maps with its application of blue, green, yellow and red — but the choice was actually made to invoke a temporal fold, a theoretical concept of bending spacetime to move faster than the speed of light.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 13 Feb. 2026
What looked like ideological bias was, more often, temporal lag.
—Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
Again and again, Tennyson fills his beautifully wrought poems with enormous, unfathomable depths—sometimes cosmic, sometimes temporal, sometimes psychological, often oceanic.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
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Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
For the launch colorway, a vivid graphic may initially bring to mind heat maps with its application of blue, green, yellow and red — but the choice was actually made to invoke a temporal fold, a theoretical concept of bending spacetime to move faster than the speed of light.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 13 Feb. 2026
What looked like ideological bias was, more often, temporal lag.
—Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
Again and again, Tennyson fills his beautifully wrought poems with enormous, unfathomable depths—sometimes cosmic, sometimes temporal, sometimes psychological, often oceanic.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temporal
Adjective
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The daily work of keeping a small human alive is depicted here as mundane and holy by turns.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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Other images similarly mix the romantic and the mundane, with glamorous students in front of kitschy backdrops of misty woodlands or positioned between towering candelabras.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
11 Mar. 2026
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Nearly half of 18-to-29-year-olds — raised by the most secular generation before them — have no religious affiliation at all — the highest share ever recorded for any generation.—
Ariel David,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Mar. 2026
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The proposal called for a curriculum combining secular coursework with daily Jewish religious studies.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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That likely indicates further improvements to Starlink's orbital and terrestrial infrastructure, as the service continues to grow and refine the technology.—
Brian Westover,
PC Magazine,
8 Mar. 2026
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For example, compared to the control plants grown in terrestrial soil, the plants in the simulant produced fewer seeds.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Be physical, rebound and play competitive.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
14 Mar. 2026
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When Grace first awakens on his ship, the film cuts hectically around, above, and below him, as if to approximate his mental and physical disorientation.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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During a roughly four-hour timespan centered on the time of perihelion, the comet will appear to pass behind the sun as seen from our earthly perspective, then rapidly swing around and cross in front of the sun.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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In the album’s most beautiful moments, Triplin makes arpeggios sound like prancing through an earthly paradise and sands off juke’s rough edges to produce rhythms that seem to chug along in the margins of a daydreaming brain.—
Kiana Mickles,
Pitchfork,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Karla Lopez, 17, currently faces a charge of injury to a child/elderly/disabled (reckless) resulting in serious bodily injury, according to jail records.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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The allegations were among a long list of charges against the career firefighter, including special allegations of multiple murders, murder to prevent testimony, intentional discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury and corporal injury to a cohabitant.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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When Hamnet dies, Agnes lets out a sound of pure grief and rage and horror that is almost animal.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2026
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And much like the fictional sport’s real-world counterpart, in this all-animal cinematic universe, roarball is the ultimate culture-definer.—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Temporal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temporal. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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