continent
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Scientists have long debated when people first arrived on this ancient continent and which routes they used to get there.
From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026
In the 1800s, some formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants migrated back to the continent from countries like Brazil and Cuba.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
It might have stopped bloodshed on a different continent.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
The continent is also geographically closer to the Gulf, which means that most ships that were en route when the war started have already arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 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
Vocabulary lists containing continent
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