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continent

[kon-tn-uhnt] / ˈkɒn tn ənt /


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"For a long time, we have discussed a leaders' format focused on the security of our continent, with partners like Canada, Norway, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and others involved," she said in the wide-ranging address.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

"Kenya's commitment to the East African Community of the African continent remains firm."

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Today, they account for 20% of all mammal species, occupy habitats on every continent except Antarctica, and have adapted to a wide range of ecological niches.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

World War II had utterly changed the Asian continent.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

The Spanish flu of 1918 had raged through the continent, killing nearly 20 million men and women worldwide and ranking among the deadliest natural disasters in history.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

That water can help generate magma, which rises toward the surface and contributes to the volcanoes that help build continents.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

"Equal Earth preserves the relative surface areas of continents and, as much as possible, shows their shapes as they appear on a globe," one of the cartographers, Bojan Savric, told AFP in 2025.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

They are the internet's hidden highways - bundles of optical fibres on the ocean floor carrying data between continents as pulses of light.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Rams owner Stan Kroenke has agreed to buy the Angels, adding Major League Baseball to a portfolio that spans six leagues and two continents.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Just as certain dishes—peach melba, prawn cocktail—have managed to spread across continents and survive over time, so some scientific doctrines are successfully disseminated, while others remain firmly tied to their time and place of origin.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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