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While American workers have long managed their own retirement portfolios to supplement a baseline Social Security check, continental Europeans were promised a comprehensive, state-guaranteed income for life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Its discovery suggests that northwestern Iran experienced a separate episode of continental arc activity during the Late Cretaceous, expanding scientists' understanding of how the region developed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Whitney is the tallest mountain in the continental United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

First of all, Alaska is a full 900 time zones behind the continental United States, so its counting won’t be done until late.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026

Ben did not understand why his mother, his sister, and his friends had to bleed, hurt, and cramp; the separateness was an abyss, a continental divide that kept them apart.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"If you don't do this and let the continentals get ahead, then they will start to undermine the cement ... which is clearing, settlement and transactions," Hodson said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2021

Britain used to be seen by continentals as quirky and occasionally awkward - but reliably pragmatic on the economy.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2017

Even among continentals, the post-Brexit fall of the pound seems to have compensated for whatever affront they may have taken.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2016

Spare a thought for the crazies the continentals are stuck with.

From Economist ● Jun. 1, 2012

The prejudice that islanders are supposed to learn from superior continentals wasn’t the sole reason why record-breaking Japanese pottery caused such a shock.

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