survive
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We can survive the degradation of the symbolic national unity of voting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
We all need to train ourselves to question everything, raise eyebrows, and employ a dose of cynicism to survive in our brave new AI world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Residents trapped there were suffering severe shortages of food, water and electricity, with many resorting to cooking garden weeds to survive.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
It helps nerve cells grow, survive, and communicate with one another, supporting memory and other cognitive abilities.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
"If he is not," Val replied stolidly, "he soon will be. And Rin with him. He is on the Mountain, alone. He cannot succeed now. And he cannot survive."
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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The critically endangered subspecies, once found across the Middle East, Central Asia and India, now survives in very small numbers in Iran.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
But when Grace survives an assassination attempt, Todd is genuinely shaken.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
The tax could be the first of its kind in the country — if it passes and survives legal challenges.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
However, his heart survives the explosion and it is in pursuit of a new host body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Reggie, I hope in the future you may be able to get past this. Somehow everyone who survives this will.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Wright is survived by his husband, father, sister and niece.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
De Miguel is survived by his daughter, Carla de Miguel Fernandez, who was born in 2025.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Rome's top official for cultural heritage, Claudio Parisi Presicce, called the work an "absolute masterpiece, perhaps the most important pictorial work to have survived from antiquity".
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
A team led by Dr. Shawna Foo found that living coral tissue survived nearly 75 percent of the observed feeding events.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
For all Penelope knew, the Incorrigibles might not have survived without the care of those terrifying beasts.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Something that is often overlooked: The surviving spouse may not have the same financial knowledge as the one who died, so planning for that scenario should also be a focus.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
She told the New York Times last month that the company’s CEO, Alejandro Betancourt, was behind “obscene corruption” and that under democracy she didn’t see the deal surviving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Together, these are the surviving remains of an adult Neanderthal believed to have been approximately 45 years old at death.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Yet industry veterans say surviving facilities with expansive live rooms, vintage gear and decades of recording history may be becoming more valuable as they become harder to replicate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Brunelleschi would have had plenty of practice in applying this knowledge when he set out to measure the height of surviving classical buildings in Rome in 1402-4.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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