civilization
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Like the billionaire geniuses who created social media that wound up depressing, dumbing down and dehumanizing civilization, the motives of these companies were purely financial.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Convery has nicely feathered hair and a character burdened by the plot’s corniest contrivances: a bully stubbornly pursuing him to the literal end of civilization, a lost pet dog that he’s determined to rescue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Smoke swallows civilization while sparks fall around the baroque column of the Fuente de los Luceros.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Even the basics about the ancient civilization at Sanxingdui, located in the modern-day province of Sichuan in southwestern China, are fuzzy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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
The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
For their argument, Schwitzgebel and Pober estimate that at least 1,000 behaviorally sophisticated extraterrestrial civilizations have existed somewhere in the universe.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
From this universal human experience, civilizations arise and cultures are born.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
In ancient civilizations as in ours, it was status made manifest.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
In our modern civilizations, we don’t really think of bathing with soap and water as being gendered.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing civilization
We the People: Civ
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Mesopotamia - Introductory
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Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires - Introductory
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