as in mundane
having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven
like all sublunary things, this misery will one day end
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Recent Examples of sublunary
Our attention plunges in while the body remains firmly rooted in the sublunary world.
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Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
Planets and stars, eclipses and conjunctions would seem to have no direct effect on our lives, unlike the mundane and sublunary antics of our fellow humans.
—Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
In the profoundest sense, the words and deeds of a martyr say to her society that there is a higher world, a world that works according to a logic superior to that of this sublunary sphere.
—Dwight Lindley Iii, National Review, 16 May 2021
But change is the only constant in our sublunary world, as writers down the centuries have noted; Powell, too, knew this well.
—Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 7 May 2018
Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
Planets and stars, eclipses and conjunctions would seem to have no direct effect on our lives, unlike the mundane and sublunary antics of our fellow humans.
—Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
In the profoundest sense, the words and deeds of a martyr say to her society that there is a higher world, a world that works according to a logic superior to that of this sublunary sphere.
—Dwight Lindley Iii, National Review, 16 May 2021
But change is the only constant in our sublunary world, as writers down the centuries have noted; Powell, too, knew this well.
—Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 7 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sublunary
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Now, many employers are looking to harness the power of AI—initially for mundane and repetitive tasks and eventually for more complicated jobs—to reduce the need to maintain the same level of human staffers on their payrolls.—
Jason Del Rey,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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The remarkable video that injects divisive politics into the mundane process of airport security has sparked controversy as many airports refuse to show it.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This temporal displacement frees Pynchon to offer sidelong commentary on contemporary politics without getting trapped in the flux of the present or being too on the nose.—
Jack Denton,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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To practice ‘future temporal focused’ networking, create a timetable and ask yourself key questions.—
Sarah Maokosy,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Unistellar plans to have over 1 million terrestrial points of interest added to its database, with Envision including real-time altitude, distance and azimuth data into the display.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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He was instantly hooked by Channel 4’s weekly NFL coverage following the terrestrial channel’s launch in 1982.—
Peter Carline,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Ethernet uses a physical cable that connects your computer directly to the router.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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Despite its name, the condition, which has yet to be formally recognized, is often also paired with emotional, cognitive and physical dysfunction.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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In early Christian thinking, its connotations of languor and listlessness, within the spirit no less than the body, lent it the status of a sin—a turning aside from God for the sake of earthly sorrow.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Ordinary matter makes up everything from the cosmic (planets and stars) to the earthly (people and trees).—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 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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“Sublunary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sublunary. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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