continental U.S.

noun

: the states of the U.S. except for Hawaii

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Dubbed the Wet Hot All-American Summer Tour, the first All-American Rejects tour in a decade covered the continental U.S. and featured rotating support from The Get Up Kids, New Found Glory, Motion City Soundtrack and The Starting Line. Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2025 By Khari Johnson | CalMatters California residents now pay the highest price for electricity in the continental U.S., state analysts reported last month. Calmatters, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025 Meanwhile, two more storms are stretching across the continental U.S., with a snow storm underway from the Plains to the Midwest, and a wintry mix of precipitation from the Mid-Atlantic to the Northeast through Thursday. Andrew Freedman, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025 This particular pathway, along with booming trade between the United States and China, eventually paved the way for cases in the continental U.S. From Hong Kong, a major shipping port, the bubonic plague traveled to other global port cities. Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for continental U.S.

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