continent-wide
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- adjective
- /ˈkɒntɪnənt-waɪd/
:
continental
- But a wider perspective was missing, so various organizations and scientists joined to conduct the first continent-wide survey of suitable great ape habitat.
- continent-wide scale
Examples
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Global or even continent-wide formulas for sustainability may be an elusive goal for many reasons.
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But why did tea become such a galvanizing issue outside Boston as well, spawning a continent-wide mass movement?
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Car plates are recognized continent-wide and are required the same.
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Or if not the US, then Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Australia, or any other continent-wide area that we could have an electrical grid across.
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The broad distribution of such goods implies that regional exchange communities intersected at one or more points, creating a complex continent-wide economic network.
Academic text (1993) -
The challenge in North America is to shape a continent-wide framework that is reasonably cohesive and harmonious.
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Further interdependence among the Western European countries through economic integration led to the emergence of, first, a core 'zone of peace', and then gradually a continent-wide "security community."
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And tell me, what's the point of preserving books and a literary tradition through a centuries-long, continent-wide political collapse anyway?
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The land-use changes accumulated over time and resulted in significant, continent-wide alterations of land cover that ultimately would combine with similar changes elsewhere to contribute to contemporary global changes.
Academic text (1992) -
The continent-wide survey revealed significant changes in wildlife populations across the region.
Synonyms
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Relating to the large land that forms a continent, not to islands
How Widespread
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Etymology
Continent-wide comes from continent ('a very large area of land') and wide ('over a large distance'), so it describes something that reaches across or affects the whole continent.