continuum
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You go this way rather than that without really knowing why, where you’ll end up next or where you are in the larger continuum.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Pangram’s latest version now outputs scores on a continuum and is making genuine progress on these gray-zone instances, but those cases remain far less validated than the extremes.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
"I'm outgoing and very confident and I love being around people," Auer says, "but I get that inkling that they all think I'm stupid and ugly, and that my life is a continuum of mistakes."
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026
"The difference between humans and chimpanzees isn't a categorical leap. It's more like a continuum," Sanford said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025
By Loeb’s reckoning, Livingston was a personality type destined to occupy an uneasy limbo within this continuum.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing continuum
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