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It's a science fiction story about a temporal rift in the fabric of time.

A maturational process that is gradual, unfolds over the course of adolescence, and permits more advanced self-regulation and impulse control ...The temporal gap between the arousal of the socioemotional system, which is an early adolescent development, and the full maturation of the cognitive control system, which occurs later, creates a period of heightened vulnerability to risk taking during middle adolescence.  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

Socrates represents a new era, geographically as well as temporally.  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Something had to be done, so people like myself created places where young peculiars could live apart from common folk—physically and temporally isolated enclaves like this one, of which I am enormously proud.†  (source) Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2011

To which I know not what they can answer, unlesse they will say, they walke Definitive, not Circumscriptive, or Spiritually, not Temporally: for such egregious distinctions are equally applicable to any difficulty whatsoever.†  (source) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

She says that having seen to her spiritual and temporal concerns, she is ready to die.

The church had ended the temporal practice of polygamy in 1890, but it had never recanted the doctrine.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

For the things which are seen are temporal.  (source) Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, 1962

The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.  (source) Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 2006

But I cannot call that situation nothing which has the charge of all that is of the first importance to mankind, individually or collectively considered, temporally and eternally, which has the guardianship of religion and morals, and consequently of the manners which result from their influence.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations.  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

But to destroy, or lose, a deathless thing—to break bonds stronger than the temporal—was a metaphysical uncoupling all its own, a startling new flavor of despair.  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

The church, refusing as it did to get involved in temporal matters, remained the only sanctuary.  (source) Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies, 1994

Following God's will is the career, so attending college, in the view of many witnesses, is a selection of the temporal over the divine.  (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

Were it not, thinkest thou, for thy little one's temporal and eternal welfare that she be taken out of thy charge, and clad soberly, and disciplined strictly, and instructed in the truths of heaven and earth?  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

I I...I I...I can't remember my name, but ...but ... Right temporal.†  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

Then he followed the facial nerve from the temporal bone where it enters the skull all the way to its exit, and on the way removed many more fragments of bone which had been restricting my jaw movement.†  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

We create temporal loops in which peculiar folk can live indefinitely.†  (source) Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2011