as in spectrum
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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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Community policing, which is a collaboration between police and the community to solve problems, and the use-of-force continuum – the escalating series of appropriate actions an officer may take to resolve a situation – also form part of training.
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Luke William Hunt, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
But Brando was also part of this fabric of same-sex relationships that Baldwin had on this continuum that did make writing the book challenging.
—Fiction Non Fiction
august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
The continuum of guidance-to-manipulation is thin and often not visible to the user.
—Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
In the hands of collectors like Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Gray’s art travels from studio to collection to resort in a continuum.
—Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 11 Aug. 2025
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Luke William Hunt, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
But Brando was also part of this fabric of same-sex relationships that Baldwin had on this continuum that did make writing the book challenging.
—Fiction Non Fiction
august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
The continuum of guidance-to-manipulation is thin and often not visible to the user.
—Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
In the hands of collectors like Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Gray’s art travels from studio to collection to resort in a continuum.
—Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for continuum
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Other companies, such as BlackSky and Maxar, are providing their own electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) imagery—that is, images in the visible and infrared light spectrums—commercially.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Critics will predictably argue that those two positions are inherently linked; on the opposite side of the political spectrum, oil and gas partisans could point to Gates’ essay as proof that climate hysteria was misguided all along and that fossil use should continue unimpeded.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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From Nvidia on track to see half a trillion dollars in revenue to Microsoft’s and Alphabet’s multi-hundred-billion-dollar capital expenditure plans, the scale is unprecedented.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
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Indeed, Herbert Saffir, one of the scientists behind the scale, was a structural engineer who focused on wind damage.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Continuum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/continuum. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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