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The words, "Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your freedom!" refer to what?

preserve

[pri-zurv] / prɪˈzɜrv /


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It is often presented as a way for women to help preserve their fertility and, in some cases, delay motherhood.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Medicine seeks to preserve life; execution ends it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Professor Garvey believes this approach could eventually help patients preserve the health improvements associated with losing weight, including better blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Pike later regained consciousness, and her attorneys have sought to preserve evidence from the botched procedure.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Over the years, efforts have been made to clean and preserve the obelisk.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

I love to hike in nature preserves, but don’t want them as my next-door neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Your prenup preserves your financial independence, but it doesn’t deal with your emotional codependence — that takes work on both your parts.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

When that much is going out, it feels especially good to do something small that preserves a little energy for me.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

It preserves the merger rather than blocking consolidation, while relying on monitoring, production requirements and penalties to limit its consequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

There was much more than she'd asked for: hot bread, butter and honey and blackberry preserves, a rasher of bacon and a soft- boiled egg, a wedge of cheese, a pot of mint tea.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The technology is decidedly futuristic, but the company has deliberately preserved a person at the point of service.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

In boglands near Gullåkra, organic material such as wood, bone, skin and even clothing were preserved due to a lack of oxygen and the suppression of microbes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The judge, I'Ashea Myles, ordered that "anything that was in the actual room needs to be preserved and maintained," including IV lines and syringes, as well as waste, like packaging, inserts, and labels.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Chemical fossils, also known as biomarkers, preserved in ancient rocks contain evidence consistent with sponges living at least 650 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

She sorted trays of dried, pinned butterflies and bottles of pupae preserved in brandy.

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

A carousel of 135 slides dating from 1976 to 1996 will accompany the four-gallery survey, underscoring the role documentation has played in preserving work created in remote locations for brief periods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

This technology allows researchers to study gene activity while preserving information about where individual cells are located within a tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The impact likely churned up older material and mixed the fossils into the rocks while still preserving them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

“At CMS, we’re focused on more than promises to make healthcare more affordable—we’re taking action to pilot a new approach to lower costs and strengthen the quality of care while preserving medical innovation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

He keeps his winnings in screw-top Crown preserving jars, donated by my mother, which he fines up on his desk.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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