Definition of "continual" []

• Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. (adjective)
• Not interrupted; steady: continual noise; a continual diet of vegetables. (adjective)

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• "During the papal blessing, Pope Benedict spoke out against what he called the continual slaughter in Iraq."
• "Gertrude Stein wrote in what she called the continual present and she wrote with the rhythm of whatever was going on around her at the moment as she was writing I think of John Cage as the Gertrude Stein of music."
• "Coral8, on the other hand, has targeted a much broader swathe of the market, including what it calls continual intelligence and including non-financial environments."