continuum
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Alas, officials on the Big House field huddled with replay officials, who reviewed their feed and discovered there was actually an additional, double-secret second hiding in the space-time continuum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Her egg-freezing decision is a part of that continuum.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Tamil Nadu has long been attuned to political theatrics, where cinema and power often blur into one continuum.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Sam and Mary give and take in equal measure, wrapped in a continuum made from red silk.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
“Because they’re just not, okay? Let’s go back to talking about Y2K. You once said something about the continuum, and how whatever’s happening now has already happened. Right?”
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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And the people who are pushing back against the right of trans people to exist are ignoring the science that says that there are continua of features, including behavioral expression and anatomical features.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020
Moreover, this kind of “categorical perception is a phenomenon that has been reported not only for color, but for other perceptual continua, such as phonemes, musical tones and facial expressions.”
From Scientific American ● Apr. 19, 2018
THE words a luta continua shine in garish orange neon from the artwork in the lobby of South Africa’s Constitutional Court.
From Economist ● Dec. 16, 2015
Aluta continua for all women all over the world – we fight to be loved and to be protected, and thank Maya for her tremendous role in the fight.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2014
The notion thus introduced may be adapted by suitable modifications to continua of lower dimensions in Cn.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Across the state’s six continuums of care, which are local planning bodies responsible for coordinating homeless services in a geographic area, Vancouver, Washington, and Clark County saw the biggest percentage increase over the two-year period.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
The federal government had recommended these continuums of care since 1994, but not until the Hearth Act was funding tied to specific metrics of effectiveness.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
Currently, Glendale, Long Beach and Pasadena have their own continuums of care and administer their own homeless counts and services for people on the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
What is up is down, and down is up, and truth and fiction cross into parallel continuums.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2019
For a minute he paused, wondering if there were other continuums or only this one, wondering just how deep the paradox lay.
From An Empty Bottle by Mari Wolf
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