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continuity

[kon-tn-oo-i-tee, -tn-yoo] / ˌkɒn tnˈu ɪ ti, -tnˈju /


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Golding’s central conceit—that consciousness may fabricate its own continuity in the face of annihilation—gives the novel its claustrophobic intensity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

This establishes at least 1,000 years of cultural and genetic continuity in the region.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

“That does not mean we are cured. We are still in jeopardy of recurrence and require careful continuity of care monitoring by our out-of-state specialist.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

Take the continuity as both sides came into their respective World Cups having won the European Championship two years earlier.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

And like the grebes, the pheasants, the quail, and the robins, they are less and less able to produce young and to preserve the continuity of their race.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

The present war exhibits major continuities with the past.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

But—as other historians of the era’s continuing impact on American life has recently articulated—there are tremendous continuities between the New Deal and neoliberal stripes of capitalism.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2023

Despite the differences between the eras, the continuities are deeply significant, starting with the reality that wars are still war and humans are still human.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2023

Two world wars, genocide, a new surveillance state: as German identity has been riven again and again by historical events in the last century, what continuities can we expect from its fiction?

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2023

And it is not only always possible to obtain continuities of this kind: it is, in drawing large forests or mountain forms, essential to truth.

From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by Ruskin, John




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