continent
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"We will have the complete ability to do what is necessary to defend the American continent and also Europe," he said of the deal, which he first announced on Friday.
From BBC โ Sep. 22, 2026
Rates are likely higher than measured, because health systems across a continent were knocked out by the eruption and struggling to recover ten years later.
From Science Daily โ Sep. 22, 2026
Yet some European officials are now beginning to worry that the buildup is shifting the balance of power on the continent.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Sep. 19, 2026
The concerns about Germany’s buildup are sharpening at a time when the U.S. is planning to downgrade its presence on the continent.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Sep. 19, 2026
It gave Akira chills to think that she and Natalie had both been in danger from different climate change disasters at the same time last year, on opposite ends of the continent.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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The company operates more than 300 data centers on six continents.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Sep. 19, 2026
It wasn’t exactly the island of misfit toys, but general manager Will Kuntz had managed to pull together four talented players from three continents who had nothing to lose and everything to prove.
From Los Angeles Times โ Sep. 8, 2026
On Earth, similar processes occur beneath volcanic arcs and are associated with the formation of continents.
From Science Daily โ Sep. 4, 2026
They are the internet's hidden highways - bundles of optical fibres on the ocean floor carrying data between continents as pulses of light.
From BBC โ Sep. 3, 2026
The distribution of continents in former times is much less neatly resolved than most people outside geophysics think.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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