continually
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2.9
- adverb
- /kənˈtɪn.ju.ə.li/
:
continuamente
- The Premium Gallery will continually change and grow.
- continually strive
- continually change
- continually update
I do not understand how you can continually scare people.
- I do not understand how you can continually scare people.
- We know it is continually showing its bugs.
- But I think that I, I do continually try to negotiate it.
- And like the real thing, the model is continually breaking down.
- The country cannot survive continually doing this and doing this and doing this.
- So perseverance means continually working at something.
- And I, I, I continually remind my audience that I'm not perfect.
- And so we must continually question, adjust, and let go.
- You have to learn new things and it's just continually exciting.
Examples
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Professional learning enhances teachers' desire to continually improve their instruction in physical education.
Academic text (2011) -
Congress has exacerbated the problem by continually increasing existing benefits and creating new ones.
Academic text (2011) -
So I just like want to continually understand people.
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And like the real thing, the model is continually breaking down.
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The country cannot survive continually doing this and doing this and doing this.
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I do not understand how you can continually scare people.
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And so we must continually question, adjust, let go.
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Visitors demand user-friendly facilities, and entrepreneurs continually seek new ways of attracting and retaining visitors.
Academic text (1990) -
Appropriate paths are continually re-planned based on the updated estimates and future predictions.
Academic text (2011) -
The engineer is continually updating the software to fix bugs and improve performance.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
On every occasion without exception
∞
1.0
Happens many times
∞
1.0
At all times, on every occasion
∞
1.0
Happens without stopping
740
1.0
Very often or all the time without stopping
476
1.0
Happening many times in a short time
386
1.0
Often at the same or fixed times
382
1.0
It happens again and again
129
2.1
In a regular way without stopping
98
4.9
Happens many times, usually within a short time
95
2.3
Happens without stopping or pausing
91
2.3
Happens often at set times
73
1.8
Very often on many occasions
65
2.2
Happens again and again for many days in a row
47
1.8
Happens again and again
42
1.3
Continuing without any stops or pauses
37
3.6
Happens every day for a long time in the same boring way
33
3.4
Every day for a long time without any change
29
4.8
Happening all the time without stopping
22
6.3
In a way that continues without stopping for a long time
6
5.4
Happens every year or for a long time
6
5.3
Without stopping
2
6.6
In a way that does not stop
2
4.1
Happens every week in the same way for a long time
1
2.5
All the time without stopping
1
5.8
Without stopping for a long time
1
4.3
Happens again and again at regular times
1
4.2
Without stopping at any time
1
6.3
Without any pause or stop
At all times
Antonyms
How Continuous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Continually comes from old Latin parts con- ('together') and tenere ('to hold'), the same idea you see in continue and continuous. So it paints a picture of things 'held together' in time, happening again and again, often with only short breaks or almost without stopping.