continental

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DR Congo is joining other continental states, including Eswatini, Ghana and South Sudan, in receiving deportees from the US.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

“Integrating Europe’s capital markets to better channel high household savings towards productive investments in the EU will be essential,” ex- European Central Bank President Mario Draghi concluded in his landmark 2024 report on continental competitiveness.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

But the Americans involved are spread across an area more than half the size of the continental U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Future models will examine how gravity, sea level, and changes in continental elevation interact.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

The differences between those trajectories were stamped by continental differences in domesticable plants and animals, germs, times of settlement, orientation of continental axes, and ecological barriers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond