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preserve

[pri-zurv] / prɪˈzɜrv /


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Scientists involved in the project said the international collaboration offered a rare opportunity to prevent the extinction of a unique plant lineage and preserve part of the natural heritage of the Juan Fernández archipelago.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The fossil may also preserve evidence of sensory organs in the skin.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

Co-sponsored by a mix of Republicans and Democrats, the bill could help preserve the conference-based rights marketplace on which ESPN’s college-sports business depends.

From Salon Sep. 15, 2026

Our default should be to preserve joints, not replace them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

A girl needed to preserve some mystery, even from her omniscient Dadi.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

It also preserves evidence of an ancient food web, revealing what a large dinosaur consumed shortly before the end of the dinosaur era.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

"Equal Earth preserves the relative surface areas of continents and, as much as possible, shows their shapes as they appear on a globe," one of the cartographers, Bojan Savric, told AFP in 2025.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

Instead he prefers a single reminder to all that preserves team unity.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Children with gender distress often have other psychiatric or neurodevelopmental conditions, and the CMS action explicitly preserves funding for their mental-health services.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Jason suddenly looked as though his brownie with peach preserves didn’t taste so good.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

But on some occasions, he said, he had been told that records run by homes of different religious orders were "destroyed in floods, fires... only for it later to transpire that they have been preserved".

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

“SB 1392 establishes a carefully limited exemption for cars that are preserved, driven sparingly, and maintained as part of California’s automotive heritage.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

"Our findings suggest that cognitive health depends not only on how much gray matter is preserved, but also on the condition of the wiring that connects it."

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

Instead of working with a nearly complete fossil skeleton, the team had to reconstruct the story from small fragments preserved inside one coprolite.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Maria and her daughters set up shop, grinding paint powders and displaying cases of carefully preserved butterflies and pupae.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

Remarkably, evidence of that ancient meal survived in fossilized feces, preserving what researchers describe as the finest feather specimen yet discovered from the age of dinosaurs.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

On its last earnings call, new Chief Financial Officer Hilary Maxson pledged “disciplined capital allocation, maintaining a strong balance sheet and preserving our investment grade credit rating.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

It is not only about preserving their hopes of silverware in a season without European football, but Chelsea are also a club that need as many competitive fixtures as possible.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Rosales adores our pictures as much as we do, if not more, and “East of the River” confirms her boundless affection for the women whose likenesses and cultural contributions she’s devoted to preserving.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

We are really not all that good at preventing disease or preserving health—not yet anyway— and we are not likely to be until we have learned a great deal about disease mechanisms.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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