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as in aura
a special quality or impression associated with something
there's a temper of tranquility about the retreat that visitors find very inviting
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as in mood
a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion
was in quite a bad temper after spilling his juice all over his new shirt
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as in temperament
one's characteristic attitude or mood
she has an even temper and a calm manner that sets everyone all at ease
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as in to anneal
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as in to moderate
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Recent Examples of temper
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
12 June 2026
So is his temper, which accelerates from zero to 60 in an instant.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
Angela Yang,
NBC news,
31 May 2026
But people need to temper their expectations.
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Jesse Pines,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Noun
Spencer Pratt dropped a temper tantrum of a concession speech in the Los Angeles mayoral race.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
12 June 2026
So is his temper, which accelerates from zero to 60 in an instant.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
Verb
But just like last year’s in-episode PSA urging fans to be kinder, the message did little to temper online fervor.
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Angela Yang,
NBC news,
31 May 2026
But people need to temper their expectations.
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Jesse Pines,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temper
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Bubblegum pink nails with strawberry auras are fit for a day at the fair.
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The color palette shifts among black and white, sepia-toned, and some gray-green patina to really nail the foreboding aura.
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The throngs of teenagers doing back flips into the Canal Saint-Martin and playing soccer in the street set the mood for the week.
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Persistent fatigue despite adequate sleep, dizziness, breathlessness, brain fog, low mood, brittle nails, hair fall, feeling unusually cold, and changes in skin quality all signal low ferritin levels.
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The fastest way to narrow the field is Michigan State University’s chicken breed chart, which lays out climate tolerance, laying volume, temperament and size side by side.
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The significance of that first game back, Dylan Cease said, depends on the temperament of the player.
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Over the next five years, real value will come from applying quantum principles, such as annealing and probabilistic optimization, to supply chains, finance and logistics before fault-tolerant quantum arrives.
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The system will form the backbone of a long-term partnership between FAU and D-Wave, which provides both annealing and gate-model quantum computing platforms.
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Kelly ultimately traveled to Mexico on April 6 to present a special screening at Cinépolis Oasis Coyoacán and participate in a masterclass moderated by Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban.
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The experience feels less like touring a luxury property and more like being welcomed into someone’s home—the atmosphere the team set out to create.
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As Norway has advanced in the World Cup, the atmosphere has grown more frenzied in the country than even during a summer or winter Olympics, Tufte said.
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If American music in 1976 represented a collective, inquisitive, inventive American spirit of discovery, the semiquincentennial in the age of social media has become more about the individual identity.
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The spirit of a '90s summer vacation is alive and well in tropics-print caftans like this fresh-off-the-runway one from SHAN's SS27 Collection.
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The fraught subject of the proper disposition of those human remains has taken on a new sensitivity — both for the prehistoric people’s Native American successors in Florida, and for the archaeologists and developers encountering them.
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That disposition compounded into the richest, most inventive society the world has ever seen.
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“Temper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temper. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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