extant

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According to the Department of Business and Trade, 161 of the extant licences relate to military products.

From BBC

"So I placed the nematodes in the established collective group genus Vetus, which was established in 1935 for fossil nematodes that could not be placed in any known extant family."

From Science Daily

You could see details in saddles and costumes, and the building were still extant.

From Salon

"They are the first artefacts collected by the British from any part of Australia, that remain extant and documented," he said.

From BBC

Depicting extremes of human emotion, the oldest extant Western plays invited the citizens of ancient Greece to confront vital issues of contemporary justice.

From New York Times