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Continual vs. Continuous
Continual
/kənˈtɪnjuəl/Examples:
Her continual interruptions disrupted the meeting flow.Continual learning is essential in fast-evolving industries.The continual improvements to the product impressed users.
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Continuous
/kənˈtɪnjuəs/Examples:
Everything permanent, everything continuous called for 'Right!'The answer was to make the holiday continuous.This would have to be continuous.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Continual refers to something that happens repeatedly but with breaks in between.
- Continuous means something that occurs without any interruption.
- Think of continual as a series of repeated events and continuous as a single unbroken action.
- Continual can involve intervals, while continuous implies an unending flow.
- If something occurs nonstop, its continuous, but if there are recurrent starts and stops, its continual.
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