survival
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We’re past due for dystopian storytelling to train its lens on a creature in the here and now, one whose very survival speaks to consequential global change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Vlasenko would later liken his daily survival to “dancing with death.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Earlier diagnosis gives patients a much better chance of successful treatment and survival.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
I mean, you can make the argument that smell is actually more important for your survival, but we’re not talking about survival here.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
The third R of the physiology of genes is a word that lies outside common human vocabulary, but is essential to the survival of our species: recombination—the ability to generate new combinations of genes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Most existing Celtic objects—found in bogs and burial mounds—are durable works in stone, bone, glass, metal and terracotta with rare survivals in wood, leather and cloth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
And there is Van Gogh's At Eternity's Gate - one of the very rare survivals of his first printmaking campaign during which he produced six lithographs in November 1882.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025
"The need to study these populations for a possible genetic management study became clear several years back, once there were indications that there were few infant births and even fewer infant survivals."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
Iberia, too, had execution survivals that resolved in freedom for the executed.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2022
Perhaps such facts as the villain's capacity to take legal action against third persons, and his position in the criminal and police law, ought not to be called survivals.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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