continent
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A European airport-industry group has warned of jet-fuel shortages for the continent.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
The research shows that forests across the continent, long known for pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, have reversed course and are now contributing to emissions.
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
Moscow has also pushed a recruitment drive across the African continent, signing up fighters from Egypt to South Africa and from Ghana to Zimbabwe.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
Once a destination for Western missionaries, the continent increasingly exports priests to parishes in Europe and North America, where the number of priests is declining.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
On the continent, a much more deductive style of science was preferred, science conducted in the style of Descartes.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing continent
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