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one of the great divisions of land on the globe or the main part of such a division
Europe and Asia are sometimes considered together to be one continent
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Recent Examples of continents
GitHub leaders have, on multiple occasions, considered moving heavily to Azure, which has data centers across continents, but those plans were shelved, said one of the sources.
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Jordan Novet, CNBC, 22 May 2026
Eight years after its founding, Antler has expanded to 27 cities across six continents, with more than 1,500 investments and more than $1 billion in assets under management.
—Angelica Ang, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Jeremy was turning fifty and had visited six of the seven continents.
—Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
There will be a record nine international games this season across four continents, including the first regular-season games in France and Australia.
—ABC News, 19 May 2026
More than 99 percent of international Internet traffic runs through the global network of undersea cables that crisscross various oceans, connecting continents and islands.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
This novel of exile and memory chronicles the life of Sufien, a Palestinian man displaced as a child by the Nakba, whose story unfolds across continents and encompasses entanglements with a broad range of characters.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox Amanda Knox, the media fixture who was accused, falsely convicted and later exonerated of murdering her roommate, captivated the public on two continents in the early aughts.
—Karen Idelson, Variety, 18 May 2026
The drive for digital sovereignty is reaching all continents, often throwing long-standing IT architectures and the dependencies that come with them into doubt or disarray.
—Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Jordan Novet, CNBC, 22 May 2026
Eight years after its founding, Antler has expanded to 27 cities across six continents, with more than 1,500 investments and more than $1 billion in assets under management.
—Angelica Ang, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Jeremy was turning fifty and had visited six of the seven continents.
—Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
There will be a record nine international games this season across four continents, including the first regular-season games in France and Australia.
—ABC News, 19 May 2026
More than 99 percent of international Internet traffic runs through the global network of undersea cables that crisscross various oceans, connecting continents and islands.
—Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
This novel of exile and memory chronicles the life of Sufien, a Palestinian man displaced as a child by the Nakba, whose story unfolds across continents and encompasses entanglements with a broad range of characters.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox Amanda Knox, the media fixture who was accused, falsely convicted and later exonerated of murdering her roommate, captivated the public on two continents in the early aughts.
—Karen Idelson, Variety, 18 May 2026
The drive for digital sovereignty is reaching all continents, often throwing long-standing IT architectures and the dependencies that come with them into doubt or disarray.
—Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for continents
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The two mainlands themselves are only 55 miles apart where Alaska's Seward Peninsula and Russia's Chukotka Peninsula sit on opposite sides of the Bering Sea.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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Planet operates a fleet of around 150 satellites that photograph most of Earth's landmasses on a daily basis.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
10 Apr. 2026
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There was SimEarth in 1990, in which the player tunes a planet’s atmospheric conditions, sculpts its landmasses, plunks down life-forms.—
Eric Boodman,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Continents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/continents. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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