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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
And memories are built in temporal pieces, each of which ranges from a second to a minute in length.
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Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
By effectively transferring knowledge from freely available visual and language data, Magma bridges verbal, spatial, and temporal intelligence to navigate complex tasks and settings.
—Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2025
His work as a filmmaker includes Animal Room with Neil Patrick Harris, Perkins 14, Dark Ride, A Good Night to Die which premiered at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2021 temporal horror film 6:45.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
Great vacations exist in a temporal netherworld, unmoored from the reality of daily life.
—Sofia Perez, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for temporal
Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
By effectively transferring knowledge from freely available visual and language data, Magma bridges verbal, spatial, and temporal intelligence to navigate complex tasks and settings.
—Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2025
His work as a filmmaker includes Animal Room with Neil Patrick Harris, Perkins 14, Dark Ride, A Good Night to Die which premiered at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2021 temporal horror film 6:45.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
Great vacations exist in a temporal netherworld, unmoored from the reality of daily life.
—Sofia Perez, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for temporal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for temporal
Adjective
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The missing leaders come from the messy middle—those steadfast, seasoned managers navigating between visionary ambitions and everyday mundane execution—who determine if organizational change succeeds or fails.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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So people are usually surprised to see Rahma capturing footage on the side, sometimes of a guest, the setup, or the mundane bits in between.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
26 Mar. 2025
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An adult secular choir has become massively popular thanks to its policy of no shaming and letting in everyone who wants to join.—
Jessie Schiewe,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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There are many young secular Jews who have been uncomfortable with Israel’s actions.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Its civil servants have a track record of working fifty-to-sixty-hour weeks, based on spacecraft trajectories rather than terrestrial clocks.—
David W. Brown,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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That trip would be the longest transoceanic dispersal of any terrestrial vertebrate known to scientists.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The physical altercation happened earlier this month at Wallace Middle School in Waterbury, Connecticut.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2025
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While the pneumonia infection has been successfully treated, Francis will continue to take oral medication for quite some time to treat the fungal infection in his lungs and continue his respiratory and physical physiotherapy.—
Danielle Wallace,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Williams and Wilmore and their crewmates exited Dragon, taking their first breaths of earthly air in months.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2025
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That final choice encapsulates Colquhoun’s lack of interest in earthly fame.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The other educator, 25-year-old Paxton Bean, is charged with official oppression and injury to a child with intentional bodily injury, a third-degree felony.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Mar. 2025
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Research shows that repeat COVID infections cause long-term damage to people’s vascular, neurological and other bodily systems.—
Nikki Morse,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Ramping up surveillance Experts say the U.S. needs to boost its surveillance and detection systems now that there are more animal and human cases of D1.1.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2025
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However, they are immediately attacked by a ferocious creature that seems not fully animal, not fully human.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Temporal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temporal. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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