temporal

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“Split-screen” canvases depict civic landmarks — City Hall, the courthouse, a high school and the local library — in two temporal states.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

"One of Monaco's distinctive features is a kind of positive secularism, which recognises the legitimate autonomy of the spiritual and temporal spheres," Guillaume Paris, a senior clergyman in Monaco, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

The review also outlines fast-moving developments in multidimensional entanglement, ultrafast temporal structuring, advanced nonlinear detection techniques, and compact on-chip devices that can generate or process higher-dimensional quantum light than ever before.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

The compilation’s temporal breadth and depth is definitely a highlight here; there are no clunkers and no choices that feel like stretching to fill out a two-disc set.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026

Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr