Mary Roach

My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse.

American Author

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

French Philosopher

Bruce Grobbelaar

I've always said Reina has the best distribution out of the continental 'keepers. His kicking out and throwing is absolutely superb. He might actually score from a kick one day, either out of his hands or he'll come 35 yards out and have a go at goal.

Zimbabwean Athlete

Ali Bongo Ondimba

We must be practical. Talking about trade and other nice things are more soothing to the ear than security. But it won't be until we have sufficient security against internal, regional, and continental threats that we can be sure of real development.

Gabonese Politician

Joseph Hume

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.

Scottish Scientist

Gouverneur Morris

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

American Statesman

Phil Neville

My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.

English Athlete

Roger Milla

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Cameroonian Athlete

David K. E. Bruce

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

American Diplomat

Giorgio Moroder

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

Italian Producer

Used to highlight the stark differences in weather between inland and coastal areas.

Climate Contrast

Frequently used in earth sciences to discuss continental features or movements.

Geological Term

Implies that something originates or is inspired by mainland European customs or traditions.

Cultural Source

Europe is diverse; 'continental' doesn't specify which of the many cultures it refers to.

Broad Term

It's hotel terminology indicating a specific type of light, simple breakfast option.

Hotel Jargon

A continental breakfast typically won't include hot dishes like eggs or sausages.

Expect Simplicity

Used to refer to institutions or concepts from the time of the American Revolution.

Historical Context

It's an archaic term and not used in modern-day language outside historical references.

Outdated Usage

 actually much more common than this way they're just not common where people all right and they're especially not common where people are over and over and over again which is why for many people this really is a once-in-a-lifetime right expiry and this is amazing because everybody in America not the continental US yes but

Watch the Total Solar...

 and there are sensors that are mounted on the bottom that can tell us information about the surrounding water, such as temperature or dissolved oxygen. And then we can collect our seawater samples in these large bottles. So we start at the bottom, which can be over four kilometers deep just off our continental shelf,

How pollution is...

 crashes into a continental plate. As this oceanic plate subducts or gets moved underneath this continental plate, things like water and carbon dioxide and other materials get squeezed out of it, like ringing a wet washcloth. So in this way, subduction zones are like portals into the deep earth,

The mysterious microbes...

 up and drifted apart over time he called this process continental drift and it went against all conventional thinking at the time may seem very unpopular amongst his peers it's a shame because he was absolutely right but it would take the work of a young cartographer called maurice art to help

How One Brilliant Woman...

 To understand how this towering formation was born, we have to peer deep into our planet's crust, where continental plates collide. The Earth's surface is like an armadillo's armor. Pieces of crust constantly move over, under, and around each other.

Why is Mount Everest so...

 The only abrupt worldwide change would have been major asteroid impacts or volcanic super-eruptions. Apart from those brief traumas, nothing happens suddenly. The continental landmasses drifted around. Ice cover waxed and waned.

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 because this would be the last of the continental temples and would open the door for national and local temples to be built around the world. And the brief was deceptively simple and unique in the annals of

How do you build a...

 stranger than fiction they are unlike any animals alive today our alien world is also home to huge river systems covering an area approaching the size of the continental United States giant

Inside the new Old World...

 or stranded offshore but penguins are hardy animals the real killer is what can happen the winds can drop the water calms and the super cold continental air quickly freezes the sea

How Penguins Adapt To...

 because it clears it away. And the habitat destruction is unbelievable. This is a photograph, a typical photograph, of what the continental shelves of the world look like.

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