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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
Can the ordinary American seeking to make ends meet move for three months to address seasonal labor, pay the cost of housing, pay the cost of transportation, only to return to their homes after that temporal season?
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Steve Inskeep, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
And though Chen maneuvers every temporal and geographical shift, efforts to convey the political context of each new era can outweigh character development, undercutting the emotional breadth this story carries.
—Kayla Maiuri, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
For leaders, introducing intentional financial, temporal, or otherwise constraints can reignite creativity and urgency within stagnant teams.
—Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
How the Maya Kept Time Livia Gershon January 2, 2022
Many scholars contrast linear and cyclical time and note that cycles were an important part of Maya concepts of temporal reality.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Dec. 2024
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Steve Inskeep, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
And though Chen maneuvers every temporal and geographical shift, efforts to convey the political context of each new era can outweigh character development, undercutting the emotional breadth this story carries.
—Kayla Maiuri, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
For leaders, introducing intentional financial, temporal, or otherwise constraints can reignite creativity and urgency within stagnant teams.
—Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
How the Maya Kept Time Livia Gershon January 2, 2022
Many scholars contrast linear and cyclical time and note that cycles were an important part of Maya concepts of temporal reality.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temporal
Adjective
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At the century-old Souk Waqif here, dozens of watch repairmen spend their days maintaining luxury timepieces and doing more mundane jobs like replacing the batteries in digital watches.—
David Belcher,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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In traditional dictatorships, critics are often charged with crimes such as sedition, treason, or plotting insurrection, but contemporary autocrats tend to prosecute critics for more mundane offenses, such as corruption, tax evasion, defamation, and even minor violations of arcane rules.—
STEVEN LEVITSKY,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2025
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The rock opera is a secular take on the final days of Jesus, and is written as a somewhat provocative, subversive story, but does not outright mock the teachings of Christianity.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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In the film, Seeger is portrayed as a secular saint — serene and good humored, the troubadour as social justice warrior.—
Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The researchers assume that the meteoritic iron came from a local meteorite fall, and the recovered material was mixed with terrestrial ore.—
David Bressan,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Available from: The University of California Press, or various online and terrestrial bookstores and libraries.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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The lack of adequate WASH facilities has also disproportionately affected women and girls by interfering with basic menstrual hygiene, harming their mental and physical health.—
Lesley Joseph,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2025
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Her husband is a serious alcoholic, and that takes an emotional and physical toll on a human.—
Alex Jhamb Burns,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2025
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How has Max died and why is his spirit anchored on the earthly plane?—
Marie-Helene Bertino,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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That’s an awful lot of earthly real estate, but when the asteroid becomes visible again and draws closer to us, a much more precise ground-zero could be determined.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Yates, 30, came to the Sacramento County prison from San Diego County after he was convicted of first-degree burglary and assault likely to cause great bodily injury.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Feb. 2025
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Yates had been sent to prison in October 2017 from San Diego County to serve eight years for first-degree burglary and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury as a second striker.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 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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Animal lovers will enjoy horseback riding or visiting one of the area’s animal sanctuaries.—
Katie Seemann,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Apr. 2023
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“Temporal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temporal. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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