SUPERCONTINENT Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

supercontinent

noun

Definition of supercontinent

as in continent

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Recent Examples of supercontinent One of the most famous cases of continental rifting is the idea of Pangea, the supercontinent that broke up and formed the Atlantic Ocean hundreds of millions of years ago. — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026 The Gulf of Mexico formed about two hundred million years ago, when the supercontinent Pangea split up. — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 During the time Tanyka lived, Earth’s land was joined into the supercontinent Pangaea. — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026 When several landmasses collided to form the supercontinent Pangea long before the dinosaurs, Earth’s crust shattered into discrete blocks and folded like a rug pushed against a wall, rising to form mountains spanning from the Appalachians to the Atlas. — Evan Howell, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for supercontinent

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Coyotes, the true American canine, have roamed this continent for more than 2 million years and were venerated by many of those same Indigenous peoples who once made camp in Big Sky.

— Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026
In 2015, an international team led by ecologist Thomas Crowther developed the first global tree-density map by combining satellite observations with hundreds of thousands of field measurements collected from every continent except Antarctica.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026

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In the years immediately following the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in August 1947 and the first India-Pakistan war a few months later, the two nations ramped up trade and inked new trade facilitation deals.

— Michael Kugelman, Time, 26 June 2026
Dal, a staple on the Indian subcontinent, spans a whole category of bean dishes.

— Hannah Agran, Midwest Living, 16 June 2026

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