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Despite maintaining continuity in an alternate world, each episode can stand alone as a complete story.continuity = consistency
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To be recognized as a tribal group by the federal program, they must document cultural continuity since 1840.continuity = continuation without interruption
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There was a thread of continuity my in nightmares.continuity = consistency
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While she relished the unbroken continuity, he felt suffocated by monotony.
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Continuity was the keynote. The same hymns were played, the same sermon given, the same announcements made. (source)Continuity = continuing from the past to the present without change
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If you read a scene in which new life was coming into being, the rain outside would almost inevitably lead you (based on your previous reading) to a process of association in which you thought, or felt (since this really works as much at the visceral as at the intellectual level): rain-life-birth-promise-restoration-fertility-continuity. (source)continuity = continuing from the past to the present to the future
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Some everyday principle of continuity, the humdrum element that told him where he was in his own story, faded from his use, abandoning him to a waking dream in which there were thoughts, but no sense of who was having them. (source)continuity = continuing from the past to the present without change
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Later, no doubt, he wished he had been more candid and had listened more closely to the whisper in his head about the wrongness of that building and the discontinuity between its true appearance and Emeline's perception of it. (source)discontinuity = lack of consistencystandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontinuity reverses the meaning of continuity. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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Many modern and postmodern texts are essentially ironic, in which the allusions to biblical sources are used not to heighten continuities between the religious tradition and the contemporary moment but to illustrate a disparity or disruption. (source)continuities = consistencies
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I feel frustrated by these discontinuities—but they can be dealt with later.† (source)discontinuities = instances of a lack of consistencystandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontinuities reverses the meaning of continuities. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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The Taliban creed comes right out of the Pashtun handbook: women are the wombs of patrilineage, the fountainheads of tribal honor and continuity. (source)continuity = continuation without interruption
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They respond that while I did not request security again after my...discontinuity...the Core authorities felt that it would be prudent to provide protection.† (source)discontinuity = lack of consistency or an interruption
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While it was a beautiful body, with all the right prominences, curves, continuities and symmetries, there was something a little strange about it—nothing visibly missing and not so much deficient as reassembled.† (source)continuities = consistencies
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I have outlying discontinuities.† (source)discontinuities = instances of a lack of consistency
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Remarkably, my present candle has stayed pretty much exactly the way it was when we first lighted it, which to me, symbolizes continuity. (source)continuity = continuing from the past to the present without change
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The scene in the moonlit bedchamber had all the discontinuity of a dream.† (source)discontinuity = lack of consistency or an interruption
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