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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
temperate .
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Examples
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If we don’t find it, I’d like to see how effective we are at lowering temperates from the upper atmosphere.
Matthew Yglesias » Arctic Seabed Methane Stores Destabilizing 2010
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They are right as far as the southern temperates, their sole field of observation; they greatly err in all except the hot, dry parts of the tropics.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The evening meal is eaten at 6 P.M. with the setting of the sun, whose regular hours contrast pleasantly with his vagaries in the northern temperates.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The four seasons of the temperates are utterly unknown to the heart of the tropics — even in Hindostan the poet who would sing, for instance, the charms of spring must borrow the latter word (Buhar) from the Persian.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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[FN#175] Those who live in the wet climates of the Northern temperates can hardly understand the delight of a shower in rainless lands, like Arabia and Nubia.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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[FN#61] Parturition and death in warm climates, especially the damp-hot like Egypt are easy compared with both processes in the temperates of Europe.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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They are right as far as the southern temperates, their sole field of observation; they greatly err in all except the hot, dry parts of the tropics.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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I addrest myself to Warburg's drops (_Tinctura Warburgii_), a preparation invaluable for travellers in the tropics and in the lower temperates.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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The four seasons of the temperates are utterly unknown to the heart of the tropics -- even in Hindostan the poet who would sing, for instance, the charms of spring must borrow the latter word (Buhar) from the Persian.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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The evening meal is eaten at 6 P.M. with the setting of the sun, whose regular hours contrast pleasantly with his vagaries in the northern temperates.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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