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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 was not an all or nothing phenomenon. We observed that cAMP responses across cells varied on a continuum," said co-corresponding author Michael Krashes, Ph.D., a senior investigator at NIDDK.

From Science Daily May 25, 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

Tamil Nadu has long been attuned to political theatrics, where cinema and power often blur into one continuum.

From BBC May 5, 2026

In reality, all of those dates are merely attempts to label arbitrary points along a continuum.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

The great continua of time, space, and the self envelope everything, betwixt them, and flow together without interfering.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James

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

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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