survival
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Earlier this year, the California Fish and Game Commission granted threatened species status to six mountain lion populations to try to boost their chances of survival.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
Eventually, exhausted with pleading with the political system for their survival, Duncan told Orleck, “I got to dreaming. We all did.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Our existence is the result of our ancestors’ survival and ability to imagine a future worth enduring the present’s sorrows.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
As hopes of his survival faded, Dawa Sherpa had slowly been making his way back, and on Thursday he was spotted by a cleaning crew as he slid slowly down the world's tallest mountain.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Consequently, we need to think of science as being the result of an evolutionary process where good science has had, over the last five centuries, a better prospect of survival than bad science.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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