transcontinental

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. 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 See all Example Sentences for transcontinental 

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“Transcontinental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transcontinental. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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