survival
Example Sentences
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Each side is effectively building a survival kit for a future where they don’t need the other as much.
The comic, who has also been a Door Guy at the Comedy Store, was told that his rare cancer has a low survival rate, five years.
From Los Angeles Times
Musk, the head of SpaceX, wrote that, “Becoming multiplanetary is critical to ensuring the long-term survival of humanity and all life as we know it.”
It is financing holidays, smartphones, school fees and hospital bills - consumption and survival, not investment.
From BBC
Habitat destruction, overfishing and water pollution from the Amazon to the Danube threaten the very survival of hundreds of species whose epic voyages along the world's great rivers go largely unnoticed.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.