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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
In fact, infants start out being able to process multiple temporal patterns equally well, but specialize across the first year in the patterns common to their culture, losing the ability to process others.
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Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
Here, drawing becomes temporal and communal — something heard as much as seen.
—Olga Garcia-Mayoral, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
Even when Andy starts spiraling into discussions about cosmic turtles, destiny, and temporal manipulation, his big sister anchors that playful back-and-forth in serious creative rigor.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 May 2026
Because color is fused through physics at the point of capture rather than through software, the data has lower latency and maintains spatial-temporal alignment.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
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Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
Here, drawing becomes temporal and communal — something heard as much as seen.
—Olga Garcia-Mayoral, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
Even when Andy starts spiraling into discussions about cosmic turtles, destiny, and temporal manipulation, his big sister anchors that playful back-and-forth in serious creative rigor.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 May 2026
Because color is fused through physics at the point of capture rather than through software, the data has lower latency and maintains spatial-temporal alignment.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for temporal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for temporal
Adjective
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Chiwetel Ejiofor plays an embittered furniture store owner who discovers a passage into the mundane alt-space, eventually drawing two young employees and his therapist, played by fellow Oscar nominee Renate Reinsve, into also braving its potential dangers.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
8 June 2026
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The film is the first in a series of shorts planned by Sophie Meloni, exploring adolescence through seemingly mundane events.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
8 June 2026
Adjective
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Its secular cast was not its only imprint.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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At least, not according to received wisdom in the secular twenty-first-century West.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
Adjective
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Meanwhile, Sarv Dharavane, who is a three-time bee veteran, took third place after misspelling the tropical African terrestrial orchid, disa, according to CNN.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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The channel can be freely accessed by terrestrial, cable, satellite, and digital television.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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At the time, detectives collected and preserved physical evidence but were unable to narrow down a suspect.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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As for agentic commerce, in Jain’s framing, only Google, Anthropic, and Bilt have the breadth of demand-side merchant integrations to power AI commerce in the physical world.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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In Muslim belief, whoever holds a fragment is holding something that connects the earthly world with the divine.—
Iqbal Akhtar,
The Conversation,
25 May 2026
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What feels like sci-fi resolves into a Realist worker portrait as a technological fantasy of efficiency chafes against the fleshy, earthly physical world.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
24 May 2026
Adjective
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The internet may be full of people who want to outlaw leaf blowers, but misophonic triggers tend to share a bodily quality, an aurally traceable culprit such as a person crunching or sighing.—
Sloane Crosley,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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He was arrested and charged with manslaughter as well as assault and battery causing serious bodily injury.—
Riley Rourke,
CBS News,
8 June 2026
Adjective
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The charity reports a 70% increase in multi-animal incidents across England and Wales since 2021, defining such cases as those involving 10 or more animals.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
9 Apr. 2026
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Regulators are trying to push drug development into a post-animal testing era.—
Meghana Keshavan,
STAT,
19 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Temporal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temporal. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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