as in continental
going across a continent
the transcontinental railroad a six-hour transcontinental flight
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Most notably, China is building an ambitious transcontinental railway in Brazil to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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Hussein Kalout, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
The board is set to consider Union Pacific’s $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern in the next two years before deciding whether to approve the nation’s first transcontinental railroad and reduce the number of major freight railroads in the U.S. to five.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
That could cause fewer big-name players to make the transcontinental flight to the Twin Cities.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
Ferguson said that the risk to jobs from creating a new transcontinental rail network will extend well beyond the two freight rail companies in the transaction, and potentially hit labor across the middle of the country.
—Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2025
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Hussein Kalout, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
The board is set to consider Union Pacific’s $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern in the next two years before deciding whether to approve the nation’s first transcontinental railroad and reduce the number of major freight railroads in the U.S. to five.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
That could cause fewer big-name players to make the transcontinental flight to the Twin Cities.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
Ferguson said that the risk to jobs from creating a new transcontinental rail network will extend well beyond the two freight rail companies in the transaction, and potentially hit labor across the middle of the country.
—Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transcontinental
continental
Adjective
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His cross-continental upbringing taught him early on that identity is both inherited and invented.—
Janee Bolden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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The team used small samples of granite, which represent the rocks found in the seismogenic layer where real earthquakes start in the continental crust.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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