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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
By effectively transferring knowledge from freely available visual and language data, Magma bridges verbal, spatial, and temporal intelligence to navigate complex tasks and settings.
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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
The Apocalypse was a way out, a temporal doorway to God and Heaven.
—Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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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
The Apocalypse was a way out, a temporal doorway to God and Heaven.
—Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temporal
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On a more mundane level, people in many places were hiding fire away in closed stoves, steam engines, and furnaces.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Mar. 2025
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Here was a death that was permanent in the mundane sort of way.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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This expansion of cooperation in Israel’s energy security with Azerbaijan – a secular state with a Muslim Shi’a majority, builds on over thirty years of cordial relations and joint projects in defense, energy, culture, air transportation, and foreign policy.—
Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Social uprisings over the next centuries lost the religious character of the 1525 conflict and would climax in the decidedly secular French Revolution.—
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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What’s more, because the GEO satellite networks use completely different protocols than the service providers' terrestrial networks, any method of interoperability has to be customized per each provider and each connection point.—
Glenn Katz,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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In these follow-up simulations, a small star, about three quarters the mass of the sun, is birthed out of the dense gas with planetesimals—kilometer-scale precursors to terrestrial planets—in tow.—
Conor Feehly,
Scientific American,
4 Mar. 2025
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Its most significant physical feature is a segmented tread protruding from its back, and extending to the front of its face.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
27 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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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
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They are often intertwined with political, moral and spiritual ideas around the rights of an individual versus the community, the limits of government power over bodily autonomy, mistrust of medical institutions and misinformation about shot safety and efficacy.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
9 Mar. 2025
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He was sentenced to serve eight years in prison for first-degree burglary and assault likely to cause great bodily injury.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Mar. 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 13 Mar. 2025.
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