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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Typing those words as an American in 2026 is overwhelming, even if the purpose here is simply to temporally contextualize this project.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026
Instead, the justices together gravitated toward something else entirely: a problem about time, causation, and whether constitutional authority can be temporally partitioned.
From Slate • Jan. 8, 2026
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.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
This means that temporally tracing oxygen-producing processes on Earth by 2-methylhopanes is no longer possible.
From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2023
“Extremely. Something had to be done, so people like myself created places where young peculiars could live apart from common folk—physically and temporally isolated enclaves like this one, of which I am enormously proud.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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