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continuum

[kuhn-tin-yoo-uhm] / kənˈtɪn ju əm /
NOUN
continuation
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For loved ones, Lesser’s recommendation was to see people with dementia as neither there or not there, but on a continuum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Her egg-freezing decision is a part of that continuum.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

They also observed that biological materials formed a continuum ranging from well preserved to heavily degraded.

From Science Daily ● May 12, 2026

Tamil Nadu has long been attuned to political theatrics, where cinema and power often blur into one continuum.

From BBC ● May 5, 2026

Mom, Dad, and Laleh were still asleep after our long journey through the space-time continuum, but I found the kitchen, and a door leading out to the backyard.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Models based on continua, such as the intensity of the individual's experienced trauma and invalidation, genetic and temperamental vulnerability, etcetera, may be more accurate and useful.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2022

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

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

But I say it was a febris continua, and had a regular crisis.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill

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

Back then, they got through the rough patch with Neal proposing, but now they’re right back there again, their time continuums crossing over a rotary-dial phone.

From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2014

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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