as in continuity
uninterrupted or lasting existence
although their bickering wasn't particularly vicious, its merciless continuousness was wearying
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Noun
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The strategy focuses on improving early warning systems, ensuring the continuity of essential services such as healthcare and drinking water and helping citizens prepare for responding to crises.—
Lili Bayer,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025 -
This year’s Duke youngsters are attempting to buck the trend that experience and continuity are keys to success in college basketball.—
Lev Akabas,
Sportico.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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This is just the continuation of one of the worst seasons of Rozier’s NBA career.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
18 Mar. 2025
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The three priorities John Seidler elucidated Wednesday were presented as a continuation.—
Kevin Acee,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
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Earlier Wednesday, Cohen had asked for a two-month continuance on the case due to staffing and budgetary shortfalls.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2025
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Under McKinley, the U.S. not only refrained from the vicious China land grab but employed its growing diplomatic influence to discourage its continuance and to deprecate the 19th-century imperialist credo.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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That’s the inventor’s playbook: Patience, persistence, and an ambitious plan.—
Stephen Key,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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In the last year alone, Davis notes scientists have published important work in a variety of areas — on blood clotting, the impacts of exercise, evidence of viral persistence in the spinal cord, and loss of blood flow to the brain, to name just a few.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Continuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/continuousness. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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