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  • noun Plural form of continuity.

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Examples

  • A good writer's style does exhibit certain continuities and characteristics over time, but is this an effect of "consciousness"?

    Style in Fiction 2009

  • As a historian, however, I would argue that there is a giant helping of anachronism in how Saul argues the long-term continuities of his concepts.

    Pample the Moose 2009

  • It is important to note that using comparative ethnography for historical reconstruction does not necessarily require that things be now precisely as they were in times past, but rather that they serve as evidence that how people did or said certain things or what they believed long ago represent continuities from the past, and, although they may have undergone reinterpretation, at times significant and in other cases subtle, the foundational features lasted into the ethnographic present.

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • Some of the shortfall in these years was due to Scholastic's failure to turn around its "continuities" book-of-the-month sales unit, which it is exiting.

    Putting Scholastic's Earnings to the Test 2009

  • Neither a triumphalist nor a champion of conservative ideas, Mr. Allitt writes as a historian analyzing the trajectory of conservatism, perhaps to find, as he puts it, "continuities" in all the variation.

    The Past's Partisans 2009

  • But Sapolsky is worried about "continuities," including the U.S. "propensity to intervene internationally," "exploitation of our gullibility about management systems," and "wishful thinking about inter-organizational agency coordination."

    MIT World: Recent Updates 2009

  • But Sapolsky is worried about "continuities," including the U.S. "propensity to intervene internationally," "exploitation of our gullibility about management systems," and "wishful thinking about inter-organizational agency coordination."

    MIT World: Recent Updates 2009

  • But Sapolsky is worried about "continuities," including the U.S. "propensity to intervene internationally," "exploitation of our gullibility about management systems," and "wishful thinking about inter-organizational agency coordination."

    MIT World: Recent Updates 2009

  • How will a growing common language allow humans to partake of life in a wider world, to surmount obstacles of global scope, and to find solace in continuities with the past?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • How will a growing common language allow humans to partake of life in a wider world, to surmount obstacles of global scope, and to find solace in continuities with the past?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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