Continuing
Continuing adjective - Going on and on without any interruptions.
Starting and continuing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Starting" instead an adjective "Continuing".
Starting
Starting adjective - Appropriate to the beginning or start of an event.
Continuing and starting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Continuing" instead an adjective "Starting".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Vulcans are a Sugar And Ice race as shown starting in The Original Series with Spock and his dad, and continuing throughout the franchise.
Source: Sugar and Ice Personality - Starting with "7:14 AM", the episodes alternate between giving backstory to a Storybrooke character and continuing the ongoing backstory about the romance between Snow and Charming.
Source: Debut Queue - Although the scene ends with them starting to have sex, an alternate version did in fact have them continuing to talk as the evening progressed.
Source: Platonic Prostitution
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