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Recent Examples of supercontinent
Tom Hanks narrates this examination of the astonishing variety of life on a supercontinent stretching from northern Canada to the bottom of South America.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 Apr. 2025
Scientists analyzing the image said the area's distinctive reddish hue signals vast oxidation of sedimentary layers caused by extreme climate swings during the Triassic Period, when North America was still part of the supercontinent Pangaea.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
At this time, tectonic movements had arranged most of Earth's landmasses into two vast supercontinents: Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Having broken off from the southern supercontinent Gondwana roughly 120 million years ago, the Indian landmass drifted north, moving far faster than most tectonic plates do today.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 Apr. 2025
Scientists analyzing the image said the area's distinctive reddish hue signals vast oxidation of sedimentary layers caused by extreme climate swings during the Triassic Period, when North America was still part of the supercontinent Pangaea.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
At this time, tectonic movements had arranged most of Earth's landmasses into two vast supercontinents: Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Having broken off from the southern supercontinent Gondwana roughly 120 million years ago, the Indian landmass drifted north, moving far faster than most tectonic plates do today.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercontinent
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Think of them more like distant cousins—raised on different continents, with different personalities, but who occasionally show up to the same party in floral prints and charm everyone in the room.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, born from a deluge that has traveled hundreds of miles through the veins of a giant, parched continent.—
Angus Watson,
CNN Money,
25 June 2025
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Their relations date back to Pakistan's founding amid the United Kingdom's partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, with Iran being the second nation after the U.K. to recognize Pakistan's independence.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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All this is part of the larger belief that only adherents belonging to religious traditions that arose in the Indian subcontinent are authentically Indian.—
ASHLEY J. TELLIS,
Foreign Affairs,
17 June 2025
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“Supercontinent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercontinent. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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