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- noun Plural form of
continent .
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Examples
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This campaign, taking place in more than 50 countries on all continents, is urging governments to tackle the global sanitation crisis.
The World Council of Churches: a new kind of potty « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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While man's increasing efficiency of food-production, combined with colonisation of whole virgin continents, has for generations given the apparent lie to Malthus 'mathematical statement of the Law of
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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The funny thing about calling Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica and America the six continents is that Europe's boundary is a fuzzy one when compared to the much more distinct line of separation of the Isthmus of Panama.
Industrialization ain't all bad. Jessica Hagy 2006
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Because there are entire countries, and perhaps I could even use the word continents, where every single car and bus belches black smoke as they go through the streets.
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Bin Laden's terrorist organization, with operatives on several continents, is both a symptom of and a reaction against globalization.
The Lawless Frontier 2000
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Woods, who won titles this year on three continents, is being accorded a welcome worthy of a head of state.
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Bin Laden's terrorist organization, with operatives on several continents, is both a symptom of and a reaction against globalization.
The Lawless Frontier 2000
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A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C.
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In this long historical (archeological) span, the rise of modern civilizations in the Near East, the Mediterranean and other centres on the African, Asian and Latin American continents, is a comparatively recent phenomenon.
Chapter 7 1991
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The future belongs to the two virgin continents of North and South America.
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