Alex Shoumatoff

The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it is a semi-open system. Moisture flows in and out unpredictably. A lot of nonlinear feedback loops and 'remote influences' - continental, transcontinental, oceanic, meteorological - come into play.

American Writer

Liz Goldwyn

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

Graydon Carter

A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To get in the game, you need a thick wallet, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of time.

American Journalist

Katori Hall

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

American Playwright

Tim O'Reilly

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

Irish Businessman

Eric S. Raymond

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

American Author

Transcontinental implies a vast scale, suggesting something large or extensive in scope.

Scale Implication

'Transcontinental' often refers to history, signifying major, transformative events or achievements.

Historical Significance

Using 'transcontinental' can allude to cultural exchanges and connections generated by crossing a continent.

Cultural Impact

 think about transcontinental airlines, across, on the other side of -- someone that's assigned a sex at birth and they identify on the other side of the spectrum. A transgender male is someone who was assigned female at birth, but their sense of self, who they are, how they live their life, is as a male.

What doctors should know...

 As an advocate of western expansion, he promoted constructing a transcontinental railroad across the Northern Plains with an eastern terminus in Chicago, where he happened to own real estate. For his proposal to succeed, Douglas felt that the territories through which the railroad passed,

How one piece of...

 beginning of the transcontinental railroad a new era we appropriated land for trails and trains to shortcut through the heart of the Lakota Nation the treaties were out the window in response three tribes led by the Lakota chief Red Cloud attacked and defeated

America's native...

 disease transmission during transcontinental flights is high making it possible for one sick person to cause simultaneous outbreaks in multiple geographic locations I am most afraid of the flu because it's so common that people don't really take it seriously

Pandemic Prepping PIPE...

 We did the transcontinental railroad, the Marshall Plan. And it's not just big, physical infrastructure problems and issues. Women's suffrage, the right to vote. But in our short-termist time, where everything seems to happen right now

3 ways to plan for the...

 half of his 40 years has flown in two wars and as a veteran test pilot who five years earlier established a transcontinental flight record as the first man to average supersonic speeds across America he volunteered for space

Remembering John Glenn:...

 all the way to the sky has no place in the modern world, otherwise every transcontinental flight would subject the operator to countless trespass suits. Common sense, a rare idea in the law, but here it was. Common sense --

Laws that choke...

 These communities did not grow up in isolation. Timbuktu's wealth and power developed because the city became a hub of lucrative intercontinental trade routes. This was one center in a borderless, transcontinental,

The powerful stories...

 He tried to buy and destroy every copy of the article containing his blunder, but to no avail. Their mutual resentment blossomed. After the transcontinental railroad was completed the following year,

The most notorious...

 the second transcontinental railroad was decided today it's a crossroads for a man's life