continuum
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They wanted a community that offered a continuum of care—independent living to skilled nursing—because they might eventually need more help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Her egg-freezing decision is a part of that continuum.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
It’s also her first album in more than a decade, one that maintains the neo-soul continuum she’s nourished since her multi-platinum 2000 debut, “Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds, Vol. 1.”
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
They also observed that biological materials formed a continuum ranging from well preserved to heavily degraded.
From Science Daily ● May 12, 2026
“It has to do with folds in the space-time continuum, obviously,” he replies, as though I should clearly have known that.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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 doctor mentions several possible diagnoses: new daily persistent headache, migraine with aura, and hemicrania continua, a headache on one side of the head that never ends.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2016
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
The great continua of time, space, and the self envelop everything, betwixt them, and flow together without interfering.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
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
Other cities receive federal funds and have continuums of care.
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
What is up is down, and down is up, and truth and fiction cross into parallel continuums.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2019
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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