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Recent Examples of supercontinent
Pangea may be named after a supercontinent of the past, but she’s built for exploring land and sea in the present day.
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025
The University of Barcelona studied an amber deposit unearthed from a quarry near Archidona in the Amazonian Napo Province of Ecuador — a part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
Gondwana was a supercontinent that included around two-thirds of today's continental area—including what is now Australia, Antarctica, India, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia and New Zealand.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
But as the supercontinent finally splintered apart around 200 million years ago and the near-endless age of dinosaurs found its groove, the planet recovered to conditions more hospitable to animal life.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025
The University of Barcelona studied an amber deposit unearthed from a quarry near Archidona in the Amazonian Napo Province of Ecuador — a part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
Gondwana was a supercontinent that included around two-thirds of today's continental area—including what is now Australia, Antarctica, India, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia and New Zealand.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
But as the supercontinent finally splintered apart around 200 million years ago and the near-endless age of dinosaurs found its groove, the planet recovered to conditions more hospitable to animal life.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercontinent
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This neighborhood, peopled almost entirely by the people who claim to have been driven from Poland and Russia, is the eyesore of New York and perhaps the filthiest place on the western continent.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Lane has worked her way through more than 50 countries across all seven continents, trying everything from snowshoeing in Antarctica to glacier trekking in the French Alps.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Her father, Amrit, a high-ranking civil servant, was born in Punjab before the partition that divided the subcontinent.—
Rebecca Traister,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2026
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The men’s Twenty20 World Cup gets underway in India and Sri Lanka next month, but the cricket tournament is exposing tensions between nations on the Indian subcontinent.—
Colin Millar,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Supercontinent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercontinent. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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