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survivor

[ser-vahy-ver] / sərˈvaɪ vər /




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Every cancer survivor would be sequenced at diagnosis and surveilled every few months.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

He, like Karasira, was a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and critic of the ruling RPF party.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Larry Vein, a Palisades fire survivor who became a beacon of hope for other survivors as he relayed essential recovery information through social media videos and community events, has died.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

The New York settlement would funnel funds into a survivor trust and allow individual compensation to be determined through tiered evaluations, with reported averages varying widely depending on severity and documentation.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

In 1993, he and his close friend Isak Federman, a Polish Jew and a camp survivor who was on the same boat to America as Jack, realized a long-cherished dream.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren




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