How to Use continuum in a Sentence
continuum
noun- His motives for volunteering lie somewhere on the continuum between charitable and self-serving.
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The space-time continuum is funny like that near the comet.
— Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 22 July 2018 -
So everyone needs to be aware of this in the care continuum.
— Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 July 2018 -
Over the course of our careers, many of us loop around this continuum several times.
— Kathryn Crawford Saxer, The Seattle Times, 3 Aug. 2018 -
Offering a continuum of care for the homeless is listed as a two-year goal.
— Karen Huppertz, ajc, 29 June 2018 -
The company maintains the design change is part of a continuum.
— Matthew Haag, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2018 -
Drake has built himself into a network of networks, into a continuum.
— Jason Parham, WIRED, 2 July 2018 -
But the ill-advisement of having brought them back flies in the face of evolution and the natural continuum.
— Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 15 June 2018 -
The artists, who are identical twins, add to but don’t exactly finish each others’ sentences because their thoughts, like their art, are a continuum.
— Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 8 June 2018 -
But the Court has not always had a clean and consistent unidimensional continuum.
— Akhil Reed Amar, Time, 29 June 2018 -
Along this particular continuum, Democrats won the House, thanks in part to the success of moderate candidates in their party.
— Chad Pergram, Fox News, 1 July 2018 -
Wine is somewhere on that continuum, somewhere between first being borrowed and then being fully assimilated into our culture.
— Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018 -
The use of the word thug is a part of that history and continuum.
— Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2020 -
The nature of it being a part of a continuum that persists to this day.
— Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022 -
Just don’t expect this one to rip through the space-time continuum IRL.
— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2022 -
Think of a car as being on a continuum: Somewhere between the shiny new car and its place on the scrap pile is (drum roll) you.
— Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019 -
Giegerich said that in the acute care arena, nurses are needed across the continuum of care.
— Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2020 -
One of the saddest things to me in this moment is that people have broken up the continuum.
— Cynthia R. Greenlee, SELF, 16 Sep. 2021 -
The program started in 1908 with founders who wanted this aspect of health care as part of the continuum of care.
— Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020 -
Apart from faith, there is a wide continuum of different views on what can or could be done.
— Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 -
They got swallowed by points on their continuum that were just too hard.
— Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022 -
Like positive habits, bad habits exist on a continuum of easy to change and hard to change.
— Popular Science, 31 Dec. 2019 -
This trunk rattler wants to rip your brain through the space-time continuum onto a dance floor of true freedom.
— Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 July 2019 -
Gaza’s cuisine is part of the culinary continuum of the Levant.
— The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019 -
Americans seemed to view a Jew saying such a thing on a continuum from strange to stupid.
— WSJ, 27 Feb. 2022 -
Entrepreneurs and investors are now stepping up to solve the challenges in the care continuum.
— Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2021 -
At one end of this continuum would be somebody in a coma.
— Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020 -
Scientists describe the risk as a continuum from high to low; few believe the risk is high at 26 feet.
— Joanne Silberner, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020 -
Long Beach, Glendale and Los Angeles each have their own continuum of care.
— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024 -
All women were on a continuum of risk during pregnancy and birth.
— Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 May 2024
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