as in survivance
uninterrupted or lasting life
The survival of many endangered species is imperiled by human action.
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Recent Examples of survival
They are grown and packaged in the U.S., are great for beginners planting a complete garden and can even be stashed in a survival kit.
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
Rebecca, confronting deep emotional wounds, must rise as an unlikely hero in a battle for survival.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 7 May 2025
Although industry support was a matter of financial survival, the experience of working with industry made MIT particularly adept at moving its inventions into the marketplace.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025
In its ongoing fight for survival, the indie film community has learned to use every tool at its disposal to get its movies made — and more often than not, that has meant shooting abroad for rebates and leveraging foreign grants through co-production arrangements.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2025
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
Rebecca, confronting deep emotional wounds, must rise as an unlikely hero in a battle for survival.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 7 May 2025
Although industry support was a matter of financial survival, the experience of working with industry made MIT particularly adept at moving its inventions into the marketplace.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025
In its ongoing fight for survival, the indie film community has learned to use every tool at its disposal to get its movies made — and more often than not, that has meant shooting abroad for rebates and leveraging foreign grants through co-production arrangements.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for survival
Noun
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The April 11 attack, whose details have emerged in the weeks since, was the worst ever at Zamzam, Sudan’s largest displacement camp, in its 20 years of existence.—
Samy Magdy,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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The approvals were critical for a heavily indebted airline that has been eking out an existence for more than four months with the help of interim court approvals to use the cash generated by operations.—
David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
17 May 2025
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That idea of Gotham survivorship was the main point of the musical (which was adapted from a Federico Fellini movie that had been much heavier on the tragic pathos).—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
17 May 2025
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However, this represents a classic survivorship bias that focuses only on those rare successes while ignoring the thousands of failures that never make the headlines.—
Dmitry Malin,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Survival.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/survival. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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