survival
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"For somebody who is able-bodied, it's uncomfortable but if you identify as disabled, we're starting to talk about survival," said campaigner Doug Paulley.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The researchers estimated that beginning about 10,000 years ago, people with roughly 10 or more copies had a 1.24% survival or reproductive advantage per generation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
For most restaurants, even the very high-end ones, working with the apps is a matter of survival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It represented years of labor, centuries of knowledge and an entire community’s economic survival.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
A recognition that humans are also dependent on the complex ecosystems we have so carelessly put into peril: dependent for food, for water, for shelter—for our very survival.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
Most existing Celtic objects—found in bogs and burial mounds—are durable works in stone, bone, glass, metal and terracotta with rare survivals in wood, leather and cloth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
And there is Van Gogh's At Eternity's Gate - one of the very rare survivals of his first printmaking campaign during which he produced six lithographs in November 1882.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025
"The need to study these populations for a possible genetic management study became clear several years back, once there were indications that there were few infant births and even fewer infant survivals."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
Iberia, too, had execution survivals that resolved in freedom for the executed.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2022
It would be hardly a fair description to say that we find many survivals of an older state of things and many indications of a new development.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
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