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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 crucial difference between the two films is not just temporal, however, but also formal.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
No temporal limitation is placed on the length of the service on the court by a Supreme Court justice.
—James M. McGuire, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
Of course, school felt like a temporal abyss for a lot of young people, especially those who were violently singled out for their differences.
—Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
First, video realism made a significant leap thanks to video generation models designed specifically to maintain temporal consistency.
—Siwei Lyu, The Conversation, 26 Dec. 2025
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
No temporal limitation is placed on the length of the service on the court by a Supreme Court justice.
—James M. McGuire, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
Of course, school felt like a temporal abyss for a lot of young people, especially those who were violently singled out for their differences.
—Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
First, video realism made a significant leap thanks to video generation models designed specifically to maintain temporal consistency.
—Siwei Lyu, The Conversation, 26 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temporal
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Last spring, my colleague Elaine Godfrey wrote about finding joy in mundane places.—
Isabel Fattal,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2026
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Product breadth is huge, some customer tasks may be highly technical, others mundane but requiring accuracy, and others still are more about look and feel.—
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Otherwise disparate segments of Iranian society, such as the conservative Bazaari merchants hitherto largely loyal to the clerics and more liberal and secular Iranian youth, shared this overarching goal.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Its first secular use, as a term for major literary texts, dates to the eighteenth century, and that sense became gradually more pervasive as authority was divorced from scripture.—
Colton Valentine,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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Unlike terrestrial settings, space missions expose machines to vacuum conditions, microgravity, extreme temperature swings, and high levels of radiation, pushing robotic systems far beyond conventional operating limits, reports CNEVPost.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Jan. 2026
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These are great for aerial, maritime, underwater and some terrestrial applications, and are maturing in terms of SWaP (Size, Weight and Power), cost and platform noise mitigation.—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Possession of a Starlink terminal now carries the threat of a prison sentence, and there have been reports of a physical crackdown on homes and rooftops where satellite receivers have been spotted.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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Anything that would jeopardize an active federal investigation, and finally, anything that depicts or contain images of death, physical abuse or injury also not produced.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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For reasons still not wholly understood, these ultradense objects—each about the mass of our star squeezed into a bizarre, city-sized ball of degenerate quantum matter—undergo starquakes in which the material on the surface shifts a bit like in an earthly tremor.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 Jan. 2026
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Other earthly assets are protected in other ways.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
20 Jan. 2026
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He was also charged with two felony enhancements of discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury or death, two felony enhancements for knowing another principal was personally armed with a firearm and one felony enhancement of personal use of a firearm.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Pay close attention to your bodily cues.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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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 2 Feb. 2026.
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