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The only time I've used break outside of switch statements is to break out of for each loops early, when I'm checking to see if at least one element in a collection meets a condition. I really don't think there's ever a good time to use continue, to be honest. And if you use a labeled break statement, that's a problem.
continue
is useful as a loop analog to early return in a function context, which helps keep indentation/nested conditionals under control and in turn improves code readability.