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
Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
The Magpies are in the Champions League—Europe’s top continental competition—for the second time in the past three seasons.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 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
Researchers performed over 100 numerical simulations of the continental collision, comparing their models to real-world seismic and geochemical data.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
The Magpies are in the Champions League—Europe’s top continental competition—for the second time in the past three seasons.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 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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Only the group winners will qualify directly for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the USA, Canada, and Mexico, while the four best runners-up will advance to a playoff for a chance to compete in the intercontinental qualifiers.—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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North Korea uses solid fuel in a range of small, shorter-range ballistic missiles, as well as in its new Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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After 40 minutes, his energy hasn’t flagged a whit.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
2 July 2025
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The most memorable offerings didn’t care a whit about product-testing strategies.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Union Pacific is calling this merger the nation’s first truly transcontinental railroad, although for practical purposes, the first complete rail connection was completed 156 years ago.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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The year that mother died, 1869, was the one when the transcontinental railroad linked us to the rest of the world.—
Robert Easton,
Outdoor Life,
3 Sep. 2025
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Drake’s attempt to get his lick back comes amid a year of Kendrick unequivocally ending the goofy Torontonian, only for the Compton rapper to repeatedly trample on his proverbial grave at his funeral, a victory lap frequently likened to that one elephant’s in India.—
Zoe Guy,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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Watch this video to see how slow feeders and lick mats can keep your pet occupied for longer.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But this transnational polity of 150,000 members across five continents has remained stable even as democracy has retreated elsewhere around the globe.—
Tenzin Dorjee,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Sep. 2025
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This is the first in a series of articles on transnational romance fraud.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The pattern continues without the game, with the introduction of Kai Havertz and Noni Madueke doing little to improve things.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2025
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While the regulator polices insider trading and market manipulation, companies are allowed to publish the bare minimum in public reporting, which does little to reassure skeptical investors.—
Wael Mahdi,
semafor.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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What happens to local companies when a multinational tech giant enters the scene?—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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Throughout his tenure at the Armani group, the designer held a majority stake at his company and resisted selling it to multinational companies like LVMH.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Continental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/continental. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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