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preserved

[pri-zurvd] / prɪˈzɜrvd /
ADJECTIVE
dried
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ADJECTIVE
smoked
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Preserved inside the 100 million-year-old resin are fossils from an ancient forest ecosystem that once supported a remarkable variety of creatures, including species never seen before.

From Science Daily • May 25, 2026

Preserved in formaldehyde and paraffin wax, they come from patients treated at the UK's national bowel hospital, St Mark's, in northwest London.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

Appeared in the October 23, 2025, print edition as 'My Journal Preserved My Dad’s Last Days'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

Preserved wetlands and native vegetation that trap carbon in the ground and reduce flooding vulnerability, too.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2023

Preserved along with it, like stale air in an unopened room, was the well known fear which had surrounded and filled those days, so much of it that I hadn’t even known it was there.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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