temperate
Example Sentences
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Geological and fossil evidence shows that the area was once covered in temperate forest, very different from today's cold, dry permafrost landscape.
From Science Daily
Though the state’s temperate coast is ideal for heat pump adoption, high residential electricity prices can make swapping a gas furnace for a heat pump a pricey proposition.
From Los Angeles Times
Volunteers have planted 800 young trees in a bid to expand one of the South West's last remaining temperate rainforests.
From BBC
Vigils and protests erupted, with demonstrators standing on snowbanks throughout an unusually temperate January day.
And given the trend was observed across four ecosystems -- tropical savanna, cool temperate forest, warm temperate forest and tropical rainforest -- it is likely to be "a widespread phenomenon, not just an Australian thing", she added.
From Barron's
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