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Vinony

continuing

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kənˈtɪn.juːɪŋ/ / /kənˈtɪn.juɪŋ/

adj

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

    “[…]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.”

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

noun

  1. A continuation.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of continue

    “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.”