as in cultures
the way people live at a particular time and place
a documentary on the advanced civilization created by the Mayas over a thousand years ago
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Recent Examples of civilizations
This time around, leaders are separated from their civilizations.
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Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Some civilizations believed this lunar event had apocalyptic significance.
—Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 5 Sep. 2025
The Quimbaya Gold Museum in nearby Armenia offers a fascinating glimpse into Colombia’s pre-Hispanic civilizations.
—Boris Seckovic, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2025
With roots dating back to pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico, they were kept as companions and even thought to guide souls in the afterlife.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
For millennia, the Nile's predictable annual floods deposited nutrient-rich silt on its banks, enabling agriculture to flourish in an arid landscape and giving rise to one of history's most enduring civilizations.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Zamboanga was an especially rewarding contrast to build into the series, where so much of Campeau’s work is about showing the vital and intricate Hawaiian civilizations that existed on the cusp of European colonization.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2025
Gaza City boasts a rich history, inhabited for thousands of years and shaped by successive takeovers from ancient civilizations.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
The nascent search for radio transmissions from alien civilizations should focus not on planets, but on their alignments, according to new research from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Some civilizations believed this lunar event had apocalyptic significance.
—Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 5 Sep. 2025
The Quimbaya Gold Museum in nearby Armenia offers a fascinating glimpse into Colombia’s pre-Hispanic civilizations.
—Boris Seckovic, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2025
With roots dating back to pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico, they were kept as companions and even thought to guide souls in the afterlife.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
For millennia, the Nile's predictable annual floods deposited nutrient-rich silt on its banks, enabling agriculture to flourish in an arid landscape and giving rise to one of history's most enduring civilizations.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Zamboanga was an especially rewarding contrast to build into the series, where so much of Campeau’s work is about showing the vital and intricate Hawaiian civilizations that existed on the cusp of European colonization.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2025
Gaza City boasts a rich history, inhabited for thousands of years and shaped by successive takeovers from ancient civilizations.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
The nascent search for radio transmissions from alien civilizations should focus not on planets, but on their alignments, according to new research from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for civilizations
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Inspired, in part, by his exposure to Indian and Persian musical cultures, Play sees Sheeran enter a brand new era, after closing the chapter on his hugely successful Mathematics series.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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Organizational cultures built around control mechanisms—KPIs, evaluations, endless reporting cycles—fuel anxiety and erode psychological safety.—
Sandro da Silva,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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It is meant to convey to the world Ford's shift from a product-first to a human-first company that emphasizes aspects of Ford beyond its vehicles, showing how Ford fits various lifestyles.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Leading up to the protests, the hashtag #NepoBaby had been trending in the country, largely to criticize the extravagant lifestyles of local politicians' children and call out corruption, NPR previously reported.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
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Our conversation revealed how commercial space, AI, and medicine are converging in ways that will open entirely new opportunities for businesses and societies.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Each of these commitments comes nestled in a bramble of thorny questions that societies have been debating for the last, let’s round it off at, 250 years.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Civilizations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civilizations. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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