{
  "id": "yet.temporal",
  "term": "yet",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "not now but after now",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "time.dimension orders moments while difference.relation marks that the present differs from a later moment, together giving the sense of something not occurring up to now.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "pending expectation",
      "future-oriented negation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station will deorbit in 2031, not now but after sixteen more years of operation.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fukushima's Unit 2 reactor reached cold shutdown on December 16, 2011, but fuel debris removal begins in 2024.",
      "domain": "energy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census undercounted Mississippi by 1.89%, affecting funding allocations that start in 2025.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "already.temporal",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "despair.state",
    "ripening.approaching"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "yet"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-yet.temporal"
}