civilization
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It’s bleak slapstick about how audiences should react to the end of civilization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
At Huxley-Parlour, SaraNoa Mark’s chunky cast-glass sculptures look like fragments of artifacts from an ancient alien civilization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
He is a person living in a world where civilization has made an entry, and of course he has a standard of right and wrong.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Packard-Grams has long been fascinated by the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, and by the countless works of literature, philosophy, and science that disappeared before scribes could make surviving copies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
What the viewers of Titian’s time would have known is that the painting depicts the mythical moment in which the Phoenician and Cretan civilizations began to conjoin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In ancient civilizations as in ours, it was status made manifest.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
All the so-called great civilizations functioned with slavery in different forms.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Vocabulary lists containing civilization
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