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continuous

Something that is continuous happens without stopping. The water flowed through the pipe continuously. If a surface is continuous, it is long and doesn't have anything in the middle. The railway line was continuous.

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(= uninterrupted) continuing in time or space without interruption a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light — James Jeans a continuous bout of illness lasting six months lived in continuous fear a continuous row of warehouses a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity

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Simple sentences

There was a continuous line of cars.
The Japanese economy recorded more than 60 months of continuous expansion.
Her continuous chatter vexes me.
This continuous noise annoys me.
But your function isn't Lipschitz continuous!
I am fascinated by clouds and clocks on old photographs - perhaps because they can be understood as symbols of the transience and continuous passage of time.
Dr. Valeri Polyakov, a Russian cosmonaut, was in space from January 8, 1994 to March 1995. He holds the record for the longest continuous stay in space.
Life is a continuous back and forth.
The brain needs a continuous supply of blood.
A continuous stream of people were walking.

Movie subtitles

CONTINUOUS BEEP Shit.
This continuous talk of love makes me hate the word.
We have prepared them long ago. Intrigues against our state, continuous provocations.
THREE DAYS AND NIGHTS CONTINUOUS FLYING.
This continuous photographic surveillance provided a permanent record to be studied intensively whenever new developments took place.
Inspector Briggs ordered the central laboratory placed under strict and continuous surveillance.
Upon returning, I found a continuous parade of cars, and the murmur of voices filled the manor.
Make continuous attacks until all ordnance is expended.
After three days of continuous activity and a visit to Buckingham Palace, Ann flew to Amsterdam, where she dedicated the new international Aid Building and christened an ocean liner.
The smiling young princess showed no sign of the strain of the week's continuous public appearances.
Do not forget, madam, that love is a continuous game with three balls, the names of which are: heart, words and loins.
The front was stabilized and shortly afterwards. developed into a continuous line of heavily fortified trenches. zigzagging their way 500 miles. from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier.
Fierce and continuous surveillance is not enough to break down the wall protecting the outlaw.
And it's continuous, like the anti-aircraft fire.
Hoarse from continuous speech throats breathed heavily.
Intrigues against our state, continuous provocations.
But I can safely say my life was one continuous misdemeanour.
The continuous motion, if they just let themselves follow it.
Dave, does that land-grant agreement say anything about our road being continuous track?
I'm trying to discover if Villette's blackmail was based on his knowledge not merely of one night at his home but also of a continuous, uninterrupted, illicit.
The front was stabilised, then shortly afterwards developed into a continuous line of heavily fortified trenches, zigzagging their way 500 miles from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier.
Lubrication must be continuous and uninterrupted.
The remote-coordinating automaton conveys a continuous flow of information permitting us to correct for error.
No, I'm as continuous as beads on a string.
It would seem obvious to me that Major Marco was suffering a delayed reaction to 18 months of continuous combat in Korea.
The process of continuous creation.
The front was stabilized and shortly afterwards developed into a continuous line of heavily fortified trenches zigzagging their way 500 miles from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier.
He gleaned from the world only those mysterious exchanges which allow shapes and sounds to intermingle in a secret and continuous progression that no collision, no involuntary movement can halt or betray.
Those are my orders. Lieutenant Uhura, order all Sensor Sections to direct beams aft, full function, continuous operation, until further orders.
Continuous volcanic eruptions.
It's a continuous and merciless responsibility.
You can see how they imagined at that time the dream of the medicals - a direct continuous venous approach for infusions.
That man suggested to the others with reasoning that seemed convincing continuous movement.
We're deformed from continuous incest.

News and current affairs

Shared water calls for flexible, continuous, cooperative water management, based on agreed-upon rights and responsibilities, as well as ongoing monitoring and dispute resolution mechanisms.
Formerly, the state decided everything, and many people, particularly in the middle and older generation, began to see freedom as a burden, because it entailed continuous decision-making.
For my colleagues and me, this is the time for hard and continuous work to expand the space of popular participation in the country and region.
America enjoys its longest continuous economic expansion in history, now more than nine years old.
The European Union, as I grasp it, is primarily a process, leading from worse to better; a process with only one end - the continuous development of European prosperity and peace.
After 12 months of continuous unemployment, the typical unemployed worker still searched for a job, but in a desultory fashion, without much hope.
But the need for some kind of continuous learning has become even more obvious today, in a world driven by the forces of globalization.
Science and knowledge are made up not of winners, but of survivors of continuous and systematic efforts to refute.
Since 1947, when the CIA was established, the US has had a continuous semi-covert, semi-overt policy of overthrowing foreign governments.
Indeed, from coup to dictatorship to war to sanctions, the US has racked up more than 60 continuous years of trying to impose its will on Iran.
Even the world's oldest continuous democracy is not immune to the erosion of self-governance.
A Danish law enacted in 1993 recognizes a right to work discontinuously, while also recognizing people's right to a continuous income.
Among the report's 16 recommendations is to develop quality teaching through compulsory continuous professional training, and to recognize and reward achievement.
Few Mexicans could be sure that the previously ruling party, the PRI, would relinquish power after 71 years of continuous rule.
To meet these challenges successfully, there is no viable alternative to a positive, continuous, and frank engagement between China and the rest of the world.
The purpose behind China's continuous modernization of its strategic assets is to enhance the credibility of its deterrent threat by improving the survivability of its nuclear forces.
In China, net exports and strong government-supported investment ensured continuous expansion.
Indeed, Netanyahu's call for peace will remain hollow so long as he continues to view the solution to Israel's legitimate security concerns as requiring continuous occupation of sizable portions of the future Palestinian state.
Trust was based on local knowledge fortified by continuous contact.
Given rapid economic growth and continuous renminbi appreciation, Chinese GDP could exceed that of the US as soon as 2015.
Indeed, the European Union is the fruit of a long, continuous effort to strengthen common norms and rules among European states.
Yet the trend over the past century has been towards a continuous increase in the number of small states, mainly owing to nationalist revolts against multi-national empires: the latest bout of state creation followed the disintegration of the USSR.
Uneducated women then have few alternatives, and the expectation becomes self-fulfilling, leaving women in a continuous cycle of powerlessness that has had significant adverse long-term effects.

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