civilization
Example Sentences
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A real strike on civilization as we know it occurred in Silicon Valley, where a new AI super-brain was locked up because it’s too powerful — and unpredictable.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
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
“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
He was a thing of the wild, come in from the wild to sit by John Thornton’s fire, rather than a dog of the soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of civilization.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
Vocabulary lists containing civilization
We the People: Civ
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