as in continental
going across a continent
the transcontinental railroad a six-hour transcontinental flight
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Recent Examples of transcontinental
The existing Mint seats are limited to a handful of routes, including transatlantic flights and select transcontinental flights, such as New York to Los Angeles.
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Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 20 Dec. 2024
After one particularly challenging transcontinental flight with a diaper blowout and a toddler with motion sickness, my husband disembarked in foggy San Francisco wearing just swim trunks and a short-sleeve T-shirt.
—Jocelyn Newman, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
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
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Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 20 Dec. 2024
After one particularly challenging transcontinental flight with a diaper blowout and a toddler with motion sickness, my husband disembarked in foggy San Francisco wearing just swim trunks and a short-sleeve T-shirt.
—Jocelyn Newman, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
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
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“Transcontinental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transcontinental. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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