continent
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The conditions have helped make new areas of the continent more appealing for Europe’s wealthy and middle classes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Today, they account for 20% of all mammal species, occupy habitats on every continent except Antarctica, and have adapted to a wide range of ecological niches.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
But despite the increase across the continent, 72.6 percent of flights arrived on time, up 1.2 percentage points on 2025.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The horrors came from all corners of the continent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
By the spring of 1944, it was clear that the Nazis had lost their chance of taking the continent.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The company operates more than 300 data centers on six continents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
It wasn’t exactly the island of misfit toys, but general manager Will Kuntz had managed to pull together four talented players from three continents who had nothing to lose and everything to prove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents like Africa.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
"Equal Earth preserves the relative surface areas of continents and, as much as possible, shows their shapes as they appear on a globe," one of the cartographers, Bojan Savric, told AFP in 2025.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Lines and curves that contain continents of meaning, points of commerce and culture. Trade and travel routes in every curve.”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing continent
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