TRANSCONTINENTAL Synonyms: 9 Similar and Opposite Words

transcontinental

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as in continental

going across a continent the transcontinental railroad a six-hour transcontinental flight

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Recent Examples of transcontinental Before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, a small number of Chinese workers, whose cheap labor was key to building the transcontinental railroads, settled here, including the Lung family, who founded a string of popular eateries. —

Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Feb. 2024 Canadian Pacific is a transcontinental railway with direct links to major ports on both coasts of the U.S. and Canada. —

Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024 Bettmann/Getty Images But Chinese Americans had reason to be hopeful in the wake of the transcontinental railroad's completion. —

Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024 The transcontinental railroad was massive, but that was about one mode: railroads. —

Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for transcontinental

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