temperate
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I’m all too aware of how quickly behavior can turn compulsive and how even the most temperate individual can unknowingly find themselves in over their head.
From Slate • May 5, 2026
While humans cause most fires in the tropics, climate change is intensifying natural fire cycles in northern and temperate regions, the researchers said.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
He also held remarkably modern views about the importance of adequate exercise and temperate eating.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
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 • Mar. 24, 2026
Outside, the air is temperate, the rolling gray clouds overhead thick with the promise of monsoon season, but Lkossa remains a city bathed in silver moonlight, more than enough for me.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Vocabulary lists containing temperate
List 6
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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