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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
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The fossil record is discontinuous at the Atapuerca site and in Western Europe as a whole, indicating that there were likely long periods without human presence.—
Evan Bush,
NBC News,
12 Mar. 2025
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As President-elect Trump approaches the second half of his discontinuous presidency, Americans seem cool to his signature economic proposal: steep new tariffs on America’s most important trading partners.—
Joseph Thorndike,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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And in spite of market turbulence caused by Mr. Trump's tariff threats, some experts think stocks are likely to gain strength in the months to come, although not without periodic bouts of volatility.—
Alain Sherter,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Other income, net, increased to $2.2 million, largely due to net periodic pension benefits.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
18 Mar. 2025
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Abrupt reductions in aid will put millions more children at risk In the past 25 years, the number of stunted children — kids whose growth has been impaired by a chronic or recurrent lack of nutritious food — has decreased by 55 million, or one-third.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Concerns about antibiotic resistance have largely been allayed in recent years by clinical practices that reduce the risk, even among people with recurrent UTIs.—
Cordelia Nwankwo,
Verywell Health,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Noncontinuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncontinuous. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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