Continually
Continually adverb - Many times.
Usage example: grew up in a time when children were continually being told to mind their manners
Once is an antonym for continually.
Once
Both words in one sentence
- Possibly an urban myth: Three 7th-grade students at a Chicago public school were once arrested and brought to the police station for selling bags of a powder, which they continually insisted was just Kool-Aid.
Source: Mistaken for Evidence - There's yet another episode where we continually hear people mentioning increasingly more ludicrous things that are occurring, and Blanche's response is simply to say "I got arrested for that once in Chattanooga," without further explanation.
Source: Noodle Incident / Live-Action TV - If you then pick Magic Arrow as your starting spell, and use it continually, even once you run out of mana, an action that drains your constitution if you do it too much, you will eventually run out of constitution.
Source: Good Bad Bugs / Roguelike
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Once and Continually. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/continually/once
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Once or Continually. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/continually/once.
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