Continual
adjective
Happening again and again, without a break or end.
She was tired of the continual interruptions while she was studying.
adjective
Never stopping or changing, over a long period of time.
They lived under the continual threat of war.
adjective
Happening repeatedly, often annoyingly or inconveniently.
He's been a continual source of problems for the project.
adjective
Kept up for a long time without interruption, ongoing.
Their continual support made the achievement possible.
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Happening again and again, without a break or end.
She was tired of the continual interruptions while she was studying.
adjective
Never stopping or changing, over a long period of time.
They lived under the continual threat of war.
adjective
Happening repeatedly, often annoyingly or inconveniently.
He's been a continual source of problems for the project.
adjective
Kept up for a long time without interruption, ongoing.
Their continual support made the achievement possible.
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Emphasis on Repetition
Highlights frequent occurrences that may become bothersome or overly noticeable.
The continual beeping of the alarm was driving him crazy.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity and Duration
Can suggest that something intense has been happening for a notably long time.
The continual rain over the past week has caused flooding.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Overstatement
Be cautious, as it can sometimes exaggerate the frequency of events if used improperly.
She complained of continual headaches, though they only occurred monthly.
Pro Tip 1/3Emphasis on Repetition
Highlights frequent occurrences that may become bothersome or overly noticeable.
The continual beeping of the alarm was driving him crazy.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity and Duration
Can suggest that something intense has been happening for a notably long time.
The continual rain over the past week has caused flooding.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Overstatement
Be cautious, as it can sometimes exaggerate the frequency of events if used improperly.
She complained of continual headaches, though they only occurred monthly.
Pro Tip 1/3Emphasis on Repetition
Highlights frequent occurrences that may become bothersome or overly noticeable.
The continual beeping of the alarm was driving him crazy.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity and Duration
Can suggest that something intense has been happening for a notably long time.
The continual rain over the past week has caused flooding.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Overstatement
Be cautious, as it can sometimes exaggerate the frequency of events if used improperly.
She complained of continual headaches, though they only occurred monthly.
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Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
are continually telling the brain about the state of the internal organs, how the heart is doing, what the blood pressure is like, lots of things. This kind of perception, which we call interoception, is rather overlooked. But it's critically important because perception and regulation of the internal state of the body --
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The surprising thing I...
and if we know that we have finite materials, why would we build an economy that would effectively use things up, that would create waste? Life itself has existed for billions of years and has continually adapted to use materials effectively. It's a complex system, but within it, there is no waste.
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The chemical reaction...
large amounts of ammonia, he would have to create a machine that would continually add nitrogen and hydrogen while also increasing the pressure on the equilibrium system, which is exactly what he did. Today, ammonia is one of the most produced chemical compounds in the world.
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Optical illusions show...
the way it was useful to see in the past. And how we see is by continually redefining normality. So, how can we take this incredible capacity of plasticity of the brain and get people to experience their world differently? Well, one of the ways we do it in my lab and studio
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The exclusion of Native...
multiple friends and family to drug and alcohol addiction and suicide what was amazing was that he still had this incredible sense of optimism for his own life his future and the future of his people watching him skate he would fall off continually get back on and he would
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A guide to the energy of...
is more efficient than one higher up. So eating producers is the most efficient level at which an animal can get its energy, but without continual input of energy to those producers, mostly from sunlight, life on Earth as we know it would cease to exist.
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Chasing the Rare Snow...
I see it. There it is. Now you can shave your beard. I can shave, I can shave now. One of the things that is peculiar to this place is that there are just so many vultures around. But the leopard has to continually protect its prey during the daytime
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Can we create new senses...
with which it feels around and constructs a 3D model of the world, and many birds have magnetite so they can orient to the magnetic field of the planet. So what this means is that nature doesn't have to continually redesign the brain.
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These Men Love...
know life seems to be continually speeding up cars are faster planes are faster now the modern world is busy busy busy the thing that illustrates it mortem to us is the mobile form to date I don't have a mobile phone
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The path to ending...
We can either choose to go down continually that path of destruction, or we can choose nonviolent coexistence. And as my mother said, struggle is a never-ending process, freedom is never really won.
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
are continually telling the brain about the state of the internal organs, how the heart is doing, what the blood pressure is like, lots of things. This kind of perception, which we call interoception, is rather overlooked. But it's critically important because perception and regulation of the internal state of the body --
Video examples
The surprising thing I...
and if we know that we have finite materials, why would we build an economy that would effectively use things up, that would create waste? Life itself has existed for billions of years and has continually adapted to use materials effectively. It's a complex system, but within it, there is no waste.
Video examples
The chemical reaction...
large amounts of ammonia, he would have to create a machine that would continually add nitrogen and hydrogen while also increasing the pressure on the equilibrium system, which is exactly what he did. Today, ammonia is one of the most produced chemical compounds in the world.
Video examples
Optical illusions show...
the way it was useful to see in the past. And how we see is by continually redefining normality. So, how can we take this incredible capacity of plasticity of the brain and get people to experience their world differently? Well, one of the ways we do it in my lab and studio
Video examples
The exclusion of Native...
multiple friends and family to drug and alcohol addiction and suicide what was amazing was that he still had this incredible sense of optimism for his own life his future and the future of his people watching him skate he would fall off continually get back on and he would
Video examples
A guide to the energy of...
is more efficient than one higher up. So eating producers is the most efficient level at which an animal can get its energy, but without continual input of energy to those producers, mostly from sunlight, life on Earth as we know it would cease to exist.
Video examples
Chasing the Rare Snow...
I see it. There it is. Now you can shave your beard. I can shave, I can shave now. One of the things that is peculiar to this place is that there are just so many vultures around. But the leopard has to continually protect its prey during the daytime
Video examples
Can we create new senses...
with which it feels around and constructs a 3D model of the world, and many birds have magnetite so they can orient to the magnetic field of the planet. So what this means is that nature doesn't have to continually redesign the brain.
Video examples
These Men Love...
know life seems to be continually speeding up cars are faster planes are faster now the modern world is busy busy busy the thing that illustrates it mortem to us is the mobile form to date I don't have a mobile phone
Video examples
The path to ending...
We can either choose to go down continually that path of destruction, or we can choose nonviolent coexistence. And as my mother said, struggle is a never-ending process, freedom is never really won.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.
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Galileo Galilei
Italian Scientist
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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Frances Burney
English Novelist
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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T. S. Eliot
American Poet
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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Jack London
American Novelist
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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Elbert Hubbard
American Writer
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
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Margaret Mahy
New Zealander Author
I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.
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Nuno Espirito Santo
Portuguese Athlete
Life is continually changing. This is what makes people better.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.
Quote examples
Galileo Galilei
Italian Scientist
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Quote examples
James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
Quote examples
Frances Burney
English Novelist
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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T. S. Eliot
American Poet
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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Jack London
American Novelist
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Quote examples
Elbert Hubbard
American Writer
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Quote examples
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Quote examples
Margaret Mahy
New Zealander Author
I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.
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Nuno Espirito Santo
Portuguese Athlete
Life is continually changing. This is what makes people better.
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