continuum
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Her egg-freezing decision is a part of that continuum.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Drawn to the continuum of pregnancy, birth and parenting, she noticed a discrepancy in the literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
They also observed that biological materials formed a continuum ranging from well preserved to heavily degraded.
From Science Daily ● May 12, 2026
Tamil Nadu has long been attuned to political theatrics, where cinema and power often blur into one continuum.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
I looked out the window, reminded that I was part of a humble continuum.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
Moreover, this kind of “categorical perception is a phenomenon that has been reported not only for color, but for other perceptual continua, such as phonemes, musical tones and facial expressions.”
From Scientific American ● Apr. 19, 2018
The doctor mentions several possible diagnoses: new daily persistent headache, migraine with aura, and hemicrania continua, a headache on one side of the head that never ends.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2016
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
I’m also the Herr Reames of several other articles, such as on the mechanics of continua and the mass and inertia of the tesseract.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various
Across the state’s six continuums of care, which are local planning bodies responsible for coordinating homeless services in a geographic area, Vancouver, Washington, and Clark County saw the biggest percentage increase over the two-year period.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
Other cities receive federal funds and have continuums of care.
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
Back then, they got through the rough patch with Neal proposing, but now they’re right back there again, their time continuums crossing over a rotary-dial phone.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2014
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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