continuing

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɪn.juːɪŋ/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɪn.juɪŋ/

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Verb

continuing

1. present participle and gerund of continue
   • 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:

     The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. […] who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.

Noun

continuing (plural continuings)

1. A continuation.

Adjective

continuing (not comparable)

1. (UK, chiefly politics) Being the successor to a no longer extant organization, operating under the same name and usually claiming to be the same entity.

   Synonym: continuity

   • 2005 May 6, Andrew T. Russell, Andrew Russell, Ed Fieldhouse, Neither Left Nor Right: The Liberal Democrats and the Electorate, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 35:

     […] in the Bootle by-election of 1990 they were beaten by the Monster Raving Loony Party, and the continuing SDP gave up the ghost shortly afterwards.

   • 2010 August 31, C. Cook, A Short History of the Liberal Party: The Road Back to Power, Springer, →ISBN, page 335:

     The 'continuing' Liberal Party was launched in 1989 by those party members unhappy with the merger with the Social Democrats.

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