civilization

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In that use of the term, the regions populated by Christians unite as one single and powerful civilization.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” he wrote.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will," he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

“As hundred-year comparators go, that’s apt. But fusion would be like fire” in its watershed effect on civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Mindspeech was the only thing I had to give Estraven, out of all my civilization, my alien reality in which he was, so profoundly interested.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin