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Recent Examples of intercontinental
The Kim regime has been engaged in a rapid modernization of its armed forces, developing a range of new weapons and testing intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach almost anywhere in the United States.
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Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
Oceania: One is guaranteed with another potentially qualifying via the intercontinental playoff.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
His large squadron of cousins, multiple-times-removed—some blood relations, and others not—have served in most branches of the military, leaving an intercontinental web of bootprints in their wake.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 10 Apr. 2025
Technological advances in suborbital and direct-to-space travel could slash long-distance travel times to the extent that intercontinental travel would be under one hour.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
Oceania: One is guaranteed with another potentially qualifying via the intercontinental playoff.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
His large squadron of cousins, multiple-times-removed—some blood relations, and others not—have served in most branches of the military, leaving an intercontinental web of bootprints in their wake.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 10 Apr. 2025
Technological advances in suborbital and direct-to-space travel could slash long-distance travel times to the extent that intercontinental travel would be under one hour.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intercontinental
Adjective
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And that corpse really gets around, in carny museums and in the sideshow accompanying a transcontinental race and then in a couple of schlock movies.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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With its Tuscan columns, marble staircases and bronze doors, the Renaissance Revival landmark once housed Crocker Bank, named after one of the tycoons who built the western portion of America’s first transcontinental railroad.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2025
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This immersive experience successfully showcased Buldak to a diverse, international audience, cementing its status as the ultimate representative of Korea’s bold culinary influence.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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In the 1940s and '50s, the Hill Country area was known as an international wool and mohair center, and Comfort’s own Adolf Stieler was called the Angora Goat King of the World.—
Amanda Ogle,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Intercontinental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intercontinental. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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