temperate

Example Sentences

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So I spent some time reading very zippy, quick, absurdist, irreverent contemporary novels, novels with a voice that is not meant to be very precise or measured or temperate, but very sloppy, loose and angry.

From Seattle Times

In a video released late Thursday, Cooper identified Cotham and three other Republican legislators that he said had expressed temperate views on abortion and said viewers should urge them to uphold his upcoming veto.

From Seattle Times

The final hybridization occurred between two wild octoploid species: one native to the temperate environment of North America and the other acclimated to the western coast of North and South America.

From Scientific American

Antares marks the heart of Scorpius, and from our temperate latitudes rises in the southeast as Betelgeuse sets in the west.

From Washington Post

That was true across the lush, temperate regions of Oregon, Washington state and British Columbia, where air conditioning was still commonly viewed as a luxury rather than a necessity prior to the deadly heat wave.

From Scientific American