civilization
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If you’re winning, you don’t typically threaten to destroy a civilization or look for scapegoats.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
In that use of the term, the regions populated by Christians unite as one single and powerful civilization.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026
Musk hasn’t been shy about aligning his companies to achieve his life’s ambition of building human civilization on Mars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 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
Roz waded through the mid-ocean shallows until the road sloped downward and she descended beneath the surface, where she found more signs of civilization.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Vocabulary lists containing civilization
We the People: Civ
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