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continuum

[kuhn-tin-yoo-uhm] / kənˈtɪn yu əm /
NOUN
continuation
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Sam and Mary give and take in equal measure, wrapped in a continuum made from red silk.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

You go this way rather than that without really knowing why, where you’ll end up next or where you are in the larger continuum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Pangram’s latest version now outputs scores on a continuum and is making genuine progress on these gray-zone instances, but those cases remain far less validated than the extremes.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

This finding supports the view that declining blood vessel health in the brain is part of the broader Alzheimer's disease continuum.

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 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




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