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continuum

[kuhn-tin-yoo-uhm] / kənˈtɪn yu əm /
NOUN
continuation
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Tamil Nadu has long been attuned to political theatrics, where cinema and power often blur into one continuum.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

When cooled to near absolute zero, the material can settle into any one of these configurations, producing a range of observed states that resemble the continuum seen in quantum spin liquids.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 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

To that end, it is a part of a continuum of how we hear all sounds including noise, speech, and silence.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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