nontemporal

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Recent Examples of nontemporal Where Reasons End is set in a nontemporal, nonphysical place. Eve Bowen, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nontemporal
Adjective
  • Hoping and looking forward to when our celestial paths cross.
    EW.com, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere are gearing up for one of the most spectacular celestial displays of the year tonight—the Quadrantid meteor shower.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • There is a powerful sense of Johnson reaching for new and bolder challenges in his ongoing dialogues with reality and metaphysical thinking, material and idea.
    Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Although the machines’ inventor is concerned with metaphysical questions—do intelligent robots disprove God’s existence?—his engineer son sees the potential for major profit and manufactures robots for sale around the world, with disastrous results.
    Elvia Wilk, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Toby Keith and Kristofferson climbed that heavenly stair.
    Bob Pisani, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The experience left Liang convinced that the movement was preying on people like his mother, who gave willingly in hopes of receiving a heavenly reward.
    Michael Rothfeld, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • While there are countless superhero stories flooding the TV landscape, Emma Moran's Extraordinary soars with its down-to-earth, Boys-esque twist, where being a hero isn't all it's cracked up to be and unworldly abilities aren't just devices for destruction.
    Alex Galbraith, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Buruma, who excels at setting a rather unworldly man in the public life of his time, describes how, in 1672, a mob in The Hague lynched Johan and Cornelis de Witt, brothers who had led the Netherlands’ liberal regime during what is now remembered as the Dutch Golden Age.
    Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • Like its demonic specters, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust endures in the dark, safely packed in boxes available for purchase and waiting for unsuspecting lovers to savor its unearthly delights.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Along with Duccio, these artists produced religious works that still retain their unearthly glow.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 11 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • And at the same time, Georgescu praises the spiritual qualities of water.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • For the last decade, researchers have been visiting the atoll to study sharks, which not only help maintain the balance of marine ecosystems globally but are also important spiritual symbols in Polynesian culture.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • There is plenty of basis for the interpretation that mandalas are symbols of the divine cosmos, designed to teach initiates about the real thing, unless mandalas are vessels in which the divine resides, nothing symbolic about them.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Donald Trump supporters on social media speculated over whether a divine message was being sent after lightning strikes reportedly hit the U.S. Capitol Building and Washington Monument in Washington D.C., and the One World Trade Center and Empire State Building in New York City, on New Year's Eve.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025

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“Nontemporal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontemporal. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.

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