extant
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One extant copy belonged to George Washington, who received it in New York, where he was preparing for a British attack.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Five more projects that were realized are no longer extant.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
According to the Department of Business and Trade, 161 of the extant licences relate to military products.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025
"So I placed the nematodes in the established collective group genus Vetus, which was established in 1935 for fossil nematodes that could not be placed in any known extant family."
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
To clarify this point, I will often use the term ‘Sapiens’ to denote members of the species Homo sapiens, while reserving the term ‘human’ to refer to all extant members of the genus Homo.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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