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continuum

[kuhn-tin-yoo-uhm] / kənˈtɪn ju əm /
NOUN
continuation
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Her egg-freezing decision is a part of that continuum.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

It’s also her first album in more than a decade, one that maintains the neo-soul continuum she’s nourished since her multi-platinum 2000 debut, “Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds, Vol. 1.”

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

It restores Douglass to a living continuum of dissent rather than isolating him as an exceptional voice, and it underscores how fully the Fourth of July once accommodated, even invited, fierce moral criticism from within.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

They also observed that biological materials formed a continuum ranging from well preserved to heavily degraded.

From Science Daily ● May 12, 2026

In 1963 a mathematician, Paul Cohen, proved that this puzzle, the so-called continuum hypothesis, was neither provable nor disprovable, thanks to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Models based on continua, such as the intensity of the individual's experienced trauma and invalidation, genetic and temperamental vulnerability, etcetera, may be more accurate and useful.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2022

And the people who are pushing back against the right of trans people to exist are ignoring the science that says that there are continua of features, including behavioral expression and anatomical features.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020

THE words a luta continua shine in garish orange neon from the artwork in the lobby of South Africa’s Constitutional Court.

From Economist ● Dec. 16, 2015

Aluta continua for all women all over the world – we fight to be loved and to be protected, and thank Maya for her tremendous role in the fight.

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2014

The locus may largely consist of continua of imaginary points; but the real parts of it constitute a real curve or real curves.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

Other cities receive federal funds and have continuums of care.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022

The federal government had recommended these continuums of care since 1994, but not until the Hearth Act was funding tied to specific metrics of effectiveness.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022

Currently, Glendale, Long Beach and Pasadena have their own continuums of care and administer their own homeless counts and services for people on the streets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

What is up is down, and down is up, and truth and fiction cross into parallel continuums.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2019

For a minute he paused, wondering if there were other continuums or only this one, wondering just how deep the paradox lay.

From An Empty Bottle by Mari Wolf


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