civilization

Example Sentences

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Traditionally this column has appreciated Olympics drama especially when it involves the clash of civilizations, like Athens vs.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shouldn’t I have been jumping for joy, scrambling down the tree, diving into the water, and swimming back to my own kind to be rescued and taken back to… civilization?

From Literature

“The capabilities we unlock by making space-based data centers a reality will fund and enable self-growing bases on the Moon, an entire civilization on Mars and ultimately expansion to the universe,” Musk said.

From MarketWatch

"The capabilities we unlock by making space-based data centers a reality will fund and enable self-growing bases on the Moon, an entire civilization on Mars and ultimately expansion to the Universe," he wrote.

From BBC

It refutes the thesis of a “clash of civilizations,” to which so many weak minds resign themselves as though it were fate.

From The Wall Street Journal