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Continuance vs. Continuation
Continuance
/kənˈtɪnjuəns/Examples:
The continuance of the committee meetings was decided.Rain or shine, the festival's continuance is assured.His willpower ensured the continuance of the project.
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Continuation
/kənˌtɪnjuˈeɪʃən/Examples:
The show was a continuation of the original series.Her graduation marked a continuation of family traditions.The treaty was a continuation of peace talks from last year.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Continuance often implies something is prolonged over time, with an ongoing existence.
- Continuation suggests something is resumed after an interruption or something that follows as a sequence.
- Continuance is more related to legal contexts, like extending a court session, while continuation is used in different contexts such as narrating a story.
- Think of continuance as maintaining or persisting, and continuation as ongoing or carrying forward.
- Continuance can often denote permanence, whereas continuation may indicate a follow-on or subsequent sequence.
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