survive
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An exploratory analysis found that participants assigned to vitamin C were more likely to survive during follow-up than those who received placebo.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Pinto has set up a fundraising page to help him "survive this serious situation", which he claims was "created by the Portuguese State".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
A prototype satellite containing four of Google’s AI chips, called Tensor Processing Units, was launched by SpaceX on Thursday, the beginning of a year-long experiment testing whether TPUs can survive in orbit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Technology set their sights on our business, and we must survive, and thrive and grow. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The more pandas in the wild, the greater the species’ genetic diversity, the greater the chance that pandas will survive threats as they emerge.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
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Cathy, meanwhile, deciphers the key to life through Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” a story about a girl like her who survives an upside-down world.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
But if no snow survives the summer, it cannot replace the ice lost to melting at lower, warmer elevations.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The region continues to warm nearly four times faster than the global average, and the sea ice that survives today is much thinner than it was several decades ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
That original interior survives in “Hollywood Buddha” and archival photographs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something. We should get a patch for it.”
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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Rodriguez is survived by his parents, his wife, Sandy, their two sons and his sister-in-law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
They survived only because he blasted over with one of his chances, shot tamely with another, lost composure with a third one.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
She survived and was taken to hospital where doctors tried to save her life.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
Her condition Thursday was not known, and Tennessee officials have not said how she survived the deadly doses of pentobarbital.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
We had survived something terrible—an unexpected, surprise flood that we had found ourselves in the middle of together.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
They would have needed to encounter one another often enough to interact while also surviving a hot, acidic, and chemically challenging environment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Most of the film takes place years later, when both Lou and the surviving Iraqis are living within a couple of hundred miles of one another in Southern California.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
It said she was engaged in “gamesmanship… familiar in capital litigation … designed to frustrate … ‘the State’s strong interest in finality and the surviving victims’ right to closure.”
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
Then she looks at Ankita, the surviving sister.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Understanding how the precious ants were surviving was less important than the fact that they were surviving.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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