continuum

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Sovereignty and openness aren’t opposites; they lie on a continuum.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

"I'm outgoing and very confident and I love being around people," Auer says, "but I get that inkling that they all think I'm stupid and ugly, and that my life is a continuum of mistakes."

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

“Alfie” is whisperingly intimate, with Kirk concentrating on just the tenor, and taking his place in the continuum of master balladeers like Ben Webster and Don Byas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

And general relativity presents a four-dimensional continuum that bends and curves -- we tend to imagine that continuum of the events as really existing.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

In reality, all of those dates are merely attempts to label arbitrary points along a continuum.

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