as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
complained that today's youth doesn't care a continental about their elders
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Recent Examples of continental
Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
Teams from the Women’s Super League in England, not to mention continental powerhouses such as Lyon, Wolfsburg and Barcelona got started earlier.
—James Horncastle, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 June 2018
Goals, fame and second-tier continental, as well as league success, came to the Brazilian, who became only the second man to break the world transfer record twice, all before his 21st birthday.
—SI.com, 27 May 2018
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Noun
Accor’s rail service continues the legacy of the fabled Belgian rail company, the Orient-Express train which embarked on its first journey, from Paris to Vienna, in 1883 and eventually extended services across continental Europe through to Istanbul.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
Teams from the Women’s Super League in England, not to mention continental powerhouses such as Lyon, Wolfsburg and Barcelona got started earlier.
—James Horncastle, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Organizers of the Asian Games—a pan-continental, multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia—have confirmed eSports will be a demonstration event later this year.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 June 2018
Goals, fame and second-tier continental, as well as league success, came to the Brazilian, who became only the second man to break the world transfer record twice, all before his 21st birthday.
—SI.com, 27 May 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for continental
Noun
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Even for those in the North who didn’t care a damn for the four million held in brutal bondage, or those who wanted a soft, conciliatory approach, the war began to take on new and moral meaning.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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At the start, the project required building a damn to drain the water from the facade.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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BetMGM has Los Angeles as a field goal favorite at a neutral site, which is suitably close for intercontinental viewership.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, North Korea has also ramped up its weapons program in the past few years, rapidly modernizing its armed forces, developing new weapons and testing intercontinental ballistic missiles.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Miss Keaton…is not a whit like the flustered ingénue she was cast to play.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
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The whit and the whoo are from different owls.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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American Airlines still flies a limited number of international and transcontinental routes with a dedicated first-class cabin, over and above their lie-flat business-class seats, but the airline plans to phase those out in the near future.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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Matt Nagy slipped into his first-class sleeper seat with a scowl on his face, a grim outing at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on his mind and a long, transcontinental flight in his immediate future.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The 31-13 win on Saturday was a resounding lick-back from last season’s 27-24 loss in which Michigan came back from a two-touchdown deficit and scored a late, game-winning touchdown.—
Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
12 Oct. 2025
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Kershaw was on the winning end more often than not, but that didn’t mean the Giants didn’t also get in their licks.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Over time, the congress fostered a transnational network of culturally influential elites who favored liberal democracy over communism and Marxism.—
Tetiana Kotelnykova,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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The anti-gender movement is no longer fringe but rather well funded, organized and transnational.—
Elizabeth Anne Wood,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But the restriction appeared to do little to keep the pollution at bay.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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But these low-risk hi jinx will encourage your own littles to try new things and take chances for the adventure of learning and saving friends.—
Katie Grant,
Parents,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In June, the 44-year-old Andic stepped away from his executive responsibilities at the multinational fashion company to reportedly take on more responsibilities within the Andic family’s holding companies, which control the family’s real estate and business holdings.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025
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The disappearance of the Titan submersible launched a frenzied multinational search operation that stretched for days before its debris field was located at the bottom of the ocean.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Continental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/continental. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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