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  • noun Plural form of continuer.

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Examples

  • Jonathan suggests that poets from this period were really "continuers of a tradition" extending back to Williams and Pound, that these "new" poets 'work still essentially belonged to the "modernist period."

    Postmodernism 2010

  • Rather, they are its quintessence, its exemplars, its inheritors and continuers -- and they have, in turn, bequeathed the core value of violent domination to their successors, who have freely and eagerly embraced it.

    The American Way: In Defense of George W. Bush 2009

  • It may be rational for me to anticipate only the experiences of my biological continuers, for instance, but it won't be in virtue of my biological continuity with them that it's rational to do so; rather, it seems rational only in virtue of the psychological relations they are expected to bear to me.

    Personal Identity and Ethics Shoemaker, David 2008

  • But it must be said that the Fathers do nothing in this field but apply with the imperfect tools that they had at their disposal the pure and simple teaching of the New Testament; they are not, in other words, the initiators, but the continuers of a tradition that had John, Paul and Jesus himself as its founders.

    Archive 2008-03-09 papabear 2008

  • It seemed to me, however, and it still seems to me, that he did nothing to diagnose our conviction that closest continuers are not necessarily enough.

    The Identity of Nozick Gordon, David 1982

  • They are mostly concerned with answering the question: granted that closest continuers are the best going in the way of identity, why should we care for our closest continuer?

    The Identity of Nozick Gordon, David 1982

  • Combatants of our glorious Revolutionary Armed Forces, you are the heirs of the best traditions of our Mambise liberators and you are the continuers of the victorious rebel army.

    15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY OF CUBAN REVOLUT 1974

  • We are grateful to all of them, Castro said in conclusion, the founders of the Soviet Union, the continuers of their cause, to all those who are now carrying out the wonderful program of building a communist society.

    CASTRO GREETS SOVIET TRAWLERS 1962

  • In putting forward this conception, it is they who are departing from the original objectives and purposes of the founders of Congress; it is the present Congress leaders who are the true continuers and custodians of those purposes and traditions.

    Congress and the Africanists1 1959

  • Masonry has not only been profaned but it has been served as a cover and pretext for the plots of anarchy, by the occult influence of the avengers of Jacques du Molay and the continuers of the schismatic work of the Temple.

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

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