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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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About 19,000 people had to flee the city, which is in an area with discontinuous permafrost.Evan Bush, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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Both Trump and Harris are tapping into a long, if discontinuous, tradition across America’s history of government investments working alongside private industry to spur innovation and economic development.Steven Tian, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
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Like the son who succeeded him, Hafez al-Assad tolerated little dissent with oppression widespread and periodic bouts of extreme state violence.Simone McCarthy, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
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But periodic soil and water sampling by land managers could tip them off if the snakes show up.Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2024
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This became a recurrent theme for Glenmark in subsequent years as FDA investigators dinged one plant after another for failing to follow manufacturing processes that prevent defective drugs from winding up in American medicine cabinets.Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2024
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He was later diagnosed with recurrent pericarditis, a painful and debilitating chronic autoinflammatory disease which affects 40,000 people in the U.S. every year.Sean Neumann, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Noncontinuous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncontinuous. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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