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Recent Examples of noncontinuous
Another strategy that the ATC has been promoting in recent years is the flip-flop—a noncontinuous thru-hike.
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Karen Berger, Outside Online, 28 June 2021
There, Russia maintains the noncontinuous territory of Kaliningrad, a militarized outpost between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic coast and studied by NATO as the potential area where trouble could begin.
—Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 14 May 2020
Inside the book were hundreds of pages of delicate pen-and-ink renderings of brain cells by the 20th-century Spanish scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who discovered the noncontinuous nature of neurons, which communicate across a minuscule gap.
—Lizzie Feidelson, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
Early storylines ■ Wellesley looks to increase its close lead over Needham (62-60-9) in teh country’s oldest noncontinuous high school rivalry.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2019
Karen Berger, Outside Online, 28 June 2021
There, Russia maintains the noncontinuous territory of Kaliningrad, a militarized outpost between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic coast and studied by NATO as the potential area where trouble could begin.
—Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 14 May 2020
Inside the book were hundreds of pages of delicate pen-and-ink renderings of brain cells by the 20th-century Spanish scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who discovered the noncontinuous nature of neurons, which communicate across a minuscule gap.
—Lizzie Feidelson, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
Early storylines ■ Wellesley looks to increase its close lead over Needham (62-60-9) in teh country’s oldest noncontinuous high school rivalry.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncontinuous
Adjective
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Each take has this in and out that sounds discontinuous.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
13 Aug. 2025
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When reinforced with discontinuous fibers, vitrimers, a class of plastic, can be reshaped repeatedly, crushed, and molded into new forms many times without their chemical structure degrading.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The new series, however, jumps back 27 years from the 1989-set It movie to bring us to 1962, an earlier cycle of Pennywise’s periodic rampaging.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
27 Oct. 2025
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Public markets offer transparency, governance, and liquidity; private firms, by contrast, often avoid periodic reporting and undergo less rigorous oversight.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Among the recurrent themes are suicide, mysteriously intractable sorrow, and failed attempts at familial and romantic connection.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Surgical options, such as a hemorrhoidectomy, may also be necessary in especially serious or recurrent cases.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Noncontinuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncontinuous. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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