civilization
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“If we destroy civilization, we don’t get that.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
James and his combat dog Odin survive the crash, just barely, but they’re stranded deep in the wilderness, miles from civilization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
We already know that a super-eruption on this scale would be a threat civilization as we know it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
I met the owner, Ada Tourtsakis, at her yurt on the outer edge of Sedona’s civilization.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Cut off from civilization, the Nhambiquara Indians were adept at hiding from plain view in the rain forest.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Human civilizations across the ages have understood this to be an important lesson, which is how gold became the go-to cautionary symbol for greed, vanity, and the hollow existence to which they lead.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
For more than a century, the National Museum has preserved a remarkable collection of clay tablets from some of the earliest civilizations in the Middle East.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
In fact, he concluded, the two civilizations are “so radically different, they’re irreconcilable.”
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
Conceivably two expanding civilizations with different planetary requirements would ignore each other, their filigree patterns of expansion intertwining, but not conflicting.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Vocabulary lists containing civilization
We the People: Civ
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