continental

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“Integrating Europe’s capital markets to better channel high household savings towards productive investments in the EU will be essential,” ex- European Central Bank President Mario Draghi concluded in his landmark 2024 report on continental competitiveness.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Each species was also mapped to one of five continental regions.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

Sitting between the Atlantic and continental Europe, the UK is also exposed to fast-moving weather fronts, which can bring sudden shifts in temperature, wind, and precipitation.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

But the Americans involved are spread across an area more than half the size of the continental U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

And the one big thing he knew was that America’s future as a nation lay to the West, in its development over the next century of a continental empire.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis