temperate
Example Sentences
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"Expanding and strengthening a rare temperate rainforest isn't a one-off intervention, it requires steady, long-term effort."
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
Vigils and protests erupted, with demonstrators standing on snowbanks throughout an unusually temperate January day.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
They liked the area’s temperate climate and, obviously, the cost of living, and they were required to pay into the national insurance program for healthcare.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025
These expanded shallow-water zones likely supported widespread, oxygen-rich, and temperate seas -- ideal environments for early complex organisms to thrive.
From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025
Most victims of hypothermia die in a much more dopey kind of way, in temperate seasons and with the air temperature nowhere near freezing.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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