continent
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In addition to Portugal, another nation targeted by Levy’s AI model is Morocco — representing a continent, Africa, that has never seen one of its nations hoist the trophy.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
El Nino also raises the likelihood of drought, heatwaves and wildfires in Australia as warmer-than average conditions grip the continent.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
On April 10, 2017, when the United Bid was officially announced, it was done from the 102nd floor of New York’s One World Observatory, the tallest building on the continent.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
The shape of the bedrock beneath the ice continues to influence how ice moves across the continent today.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
Waldseemüller’s world map of 1507, the first to include the name ‘America’, the first to show the New World as, in effect, a new continent, and the first to show antipodes.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing continent
Physical Geography - Introductory
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