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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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That's why countries go to great lengths to protect and preserve them.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

Amateur athletic competition has been a staple of American society since the late 19th century, and Congress has the opportunity now to preserve the place of college athletics in that tradition.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

As refiners focused on jet-fuel runs in the spring, airlines announced capacity cuts, trimming their schedules to preserve fuel for their more profitable and popular routes.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

To do that effectively, researchers would need to treat these materials as mechanical networks and use models detailed enough to preserve the system's true dynamics.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

So the two-spheres theory was abandoned, even while efforts were made by some conservative thinkers to preserve the traditional claim that the seas are higher than the land.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

"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

The fossil belongs to Dendrocrinus simcoensis and preserves its tube feet, delicate structures that almost never survive fossilization.

From Science Daily Aug. 21, 2026

Along with the classes for hogs and cattle and home preserves, a category for moths.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

By analyzing DNA from the plague bacterium preserved in archaeological human remains, scientists were able to reconstruct how the disease spread, evolved, and repeatedly reappeared long after the Black Death.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

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

“Scientific American” cautioned in 1939 that “as much water as possible must be preserved to replenish ground water storage.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

She had evidently been a handsome woman, and was well preserved still.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

It means holding developers accountable for preventable harms while preserving their ability to innovate.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

"For me they're an absolute treasure - like an Egyptian artefact... as valuable as that," he added - "and preserving them is a duty to our children and grandchildren".

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

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

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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