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In this paper, by introducing a novel coordinate transformation and new updating laws, an approach is presented for the first time to design a continuous adaptive controller to make the tracking error prescribed arbitrarily small after a finite time and simultaneously to keep all the closed-loop states bounded. It is worth emphasizing that the proposed adaptive tracking control design scheme is motivated by the recent tracking works, inspired by the ideas of universal control and dead zone and obtained by the approaches of Nussbaum-gain and adding a power integrator. 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