temporally
Americanadverb
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in a way that relates to or involves time.
Temperature and salinity are both influential, but their relative importance varies spatially and temporally.
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in a way that relates to or involves present life or the secular world.
A dedicated group of former guests supports us spiritually through prayer and temporally through financial assistance.
Etymology
Origin of temporally
Example Sentences
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Tolkien’s world thus existed in the form of a “massive textual archive,” producing a “sense that the world extends both temporally and physically beyond the text.”
“I went to the Sears building a couple of months ago, where Pali High is temporally housed, to look at this big wall where kids had posted notes about how they felt post-fires,” Reale said.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s the first of a three-part installation — the other two parts show up later in the exhibition — that invites visitors “to think temporally about where we’ve been and where we’re going,” Gray said.
From Los Angeles Times
If you’ve hypothetically wondered, “What is time anymore,” it may be both alarming and a relief to know you’re not the only temporally disoriented person out here.
From Salon
In this way, they obtained spatially and temporally finely resolved locations where vultures fed.
From Science Daily
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