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continuity

[kon-tn-oo-i-tee, -tn-yoo] / ˌkɒn tnˈu ɪ ti, -tnˈju /


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Affected practices have been contacted by NHS England with advice on how to maintain business continuity and minimise the impact on patient care.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Li cites continuity in policy, management at state-run oil company Petrobras and diplomatic relations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

At a community college, where the players change every one or two years, continuity depends on the culture being passed down from one generation to the next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

But they advise that when a new clinical record is created for an adopted child, enough information must be kept to support continuity of care.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

People take love’s continuity for granted, just as they take their body’s continuity for granted.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

The present war exhibits major continuities with the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

The museum has deconstructed the traditional, boxy narrative of art history and rendered the story itself a matter of curves and continuities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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

The stubborn particularism of orthodox empiricism is its outstanding trait; consequently the opposed rationalism found no justification of bearings, continuities, and ties save to refer them in gross to the work of a hyper-empirical Reason.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode


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