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temperature

[tem-per-uh-cher, -choor, -pruh-, -per-cher] / ˈtɛm pər ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, -prə-, -pər tʃər /


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If the liquid cannot be kept cool, it reverts to car temperature, which is considerably higher than ambient.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Scientists agree that warming above 1.5C relative to pre-industrial times poses grave risks, and nearly 200 nations committed a decade ago to try and keep global temperature rises to this safer threshold.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

To keep the medication in place longer, the team created a specialized hydrogel made from Collagen II. The material responds to temperature.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Trax acknowledged "periods of elevated temperature" but said cooling systems were in place and insisted its approach "is not based on enforcing output targets".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Stoking the hearth fire, ensuring that the tea was just the right temperature for possible visitors.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Existing fusion experiments have not reached the temperatures associated with the Cordey saddle, preventing scientists from testing the predicted route under those conditions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan could see seven- to nine-degree higher average winter temperatures compared to last year, said Paul Pastelok, AccuWeather’s lead U.S. long-range forecaster.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

Officials had predicted that tides in Southern California would be 1 foot to 1.5 feet above normal what would ordinarily be expected without the abnormally warm ocean temperatures wrought by El Niño.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

An Anduril spokesman said its drone overheated and that it had previously been tested in hot and cold temperatures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

She’d started keeping a weather journal, where she wrote down the daily high and low temperatures, the cloud formations, the wind speeds, the amount of sunshine and rain.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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