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a range or series of things that are slightly different from each other and that exist between two different possibilities
His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the continuum between charitable and self-serving. a continuum of temperatures ranging from very cold to very hot
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Recent Examples of continuum
By fostering intergenerational collaborations, the Centre rebuilds a continuum of Black creativity.
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Byron Armstrong, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The record is a fascinating retrospective that reveals just how thoroughly Gaga understands her place in the pop-music continuum.
—Nate Sloan, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
The film returns us to a childlike gaze, marveling at a world alive with possibility, where every sight lives on a continuum of meaning.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Visitors enter through the TARDIS spaceship to see all 17 of the Doctor's costumes and learn about scientific topics that informed the show from the space-time continuum to AI to cloning.
—Kate Murphy, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
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Byron Armstrong, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The record is a fascinating retrospective that reveals just how thoroughly Gaga understands her place in the pop-music continuum.
—Nate Sloan, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
The film returns us to a childlike gaze, marveling at a world alive with possibility, where every sight lives on a continuum of meaning.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Visitors enter through the TARDIS spaceship to see all 17 of the Doctor's costumes and learn about scientific topics that informed the show from the space-time continuum to AI to cloning.
—Kate Murphy, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for continuum
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At the opposite spectrum of the sombre tone and palette of Ritual of the Ancestors and Rites of Passage are a pair of sensual canvases titled Adoration of the Earth which depict a naked woman languishing in a field of dancing sunflowers.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Despite the White House’s claims that the bill would be deficit neutral, budget experts across the ideological spectrum project the bill to add even more to the $36 trillion national debt.—
Sylvan Lane,
The Hill,
22 May 2025
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That’s exactly where many organizations are flying blind, building AI agents without a strategy for how to keep them running, governed and optimized at scale.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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Related Articles Hurricane season 2025: What is the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale?—
Maureen Mccann,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 May 2025
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“Continuum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/continuum. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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