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civilization

[siv-uh-luh-zay-shuhn] / ˌsɪv ə ləˈzeɪ ʃən /


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There’s an alternate universe where Taylor Tomlinson is a young adult fantasy author holed up in a cabin miles from civilization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

We already know that a super-eruption on this scale would be a threat civilization as we know it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

I met the owner, Ada Tourtsakis, at her yurt on the outer edge of Sedona’s civilization.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

If tech bros are saying that AI might someday break containment and take down civilization, that sounds like an accountability sink coupled with an investor pitch.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

It would be the first time in all the world that intelligent beings, besides men, had ever tried to start a real civilization of their own.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

What the viewers of Titian’s time would have known is that the painting depicts the mythical moment in which the Phoenician and Cretan civilizations began to conjoin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Contemporary nations like Iran, Armenia, and Egypt can lay claim to being built on very old civilizations, but you could point out discontinuities and lapses in sovereignty in their histories that complicate the argument.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2026

For more than a century, the National Museum has preserved a remarkable collection of clay tablets from some of the earliest civilizations in the Middle East.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

From books, the Spaniards knew of many contemporary civilizations remote from Europe, and about several thousand years of European history.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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