Sample Sentences for
continuity
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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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    But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken.  (source)
    continuity = consistency
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    There seems to be through it all some thread of continuity.  (source)
    continuity = consistency
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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 consistency
    standard 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)
    standard 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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    It was wonderful, the vast variety of forms into which she threw her intellect, with no continuity, indeed, but darting up and dancing, always in a state of preternatural activity—soon sinking down, as if exhausted by so rapid and feverish a tide of life—and succeeded by other shapes of a similar wild energy.  (source)
    continuity = consistency
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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)
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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)
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    I have outlying discontinuities.†  (source)
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    Like there's no continuity in people at all.  (source)
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    In Repin's picture the peasant recognizes and sees things in the way in which he recognizes and sees things outside of pictures — there is no discontinuity between art and life, no need to accept a convention and say to oneself, that icon represents Jesus because it intends to represent Jesus, even if it does not remind me very much of a man.†  (source)
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