continuity
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"We see continuity here," explains Frank Maixner, director of the Institute for Mummy Studies at Eurac Research: "These yeasts have accompanied Ötzi on his long journey through the millennia."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Through seven years of extraordinary political upheaval, Tobias Gough has served as a rare—and chiseled—symbol of institutional continuity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
It highlights the quality of the talent coming through under the leadership of Shields and Van der Kraan, with pathways director Jack Francis providing continuity as he enters his 16th year at the club.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Prior to the game, Borthwick was asked about his continuity in selection: "That's four new caps in the past two weeks - how many caps did you want?"
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The title was rambling, but the message was succinct: if you mixed the effects of three to five variant genes on any trait, you could generate nearly perfect continuity in phenotype.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The present war exhibits major continuities with the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Despite the differences between the eras, the continuities are deeply significant, starting with the reality that wars are still war and humans are still human.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023
And in terms of immigration policy in general, there are unfortunately far more continuities between the different administrations than we like to think.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2023
Two world wars, genocide, a new surveillance state: as German identity has been riven again and again by historical events in the last century, what continuities can we expect from its fiction?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Everywhere in Browning the slow continuities of existence are obscured by vivid moments,—the counterpart of his bursts of sunlight through rifts and chinks.
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
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