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adjective

Definition of survivingnext
as in extant

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verb

present participle of survive
1
as in living
to come safely through the cat miraculously survived a two-story fall

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as in lasting
to continue to operate or to meet one's needs some old-world customs still survive in modern-day America

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Recent Examples of surviving
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Declan Rice and Ezri Konsa also scored as England raced to a 4-0 halftime lead before surviving a frantic second half to secure the nation’s best World Cup finish since winning the title in 1966. — Mark Hodge, NBC news, 20 July 2026 On one of the surviving Ottoman maps of Athens, it’s indicated by a dotted line, a marking that also indicated what is believed to have been a plan of underground tunnels below the citadel. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 Drai’s After Hours now sits beneath one of the Strip’s newest hotels and inside one of its oldest surviving nightlife rooms. — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 After surviving the Holocaust, Lassally and his family moved to New York in 1947. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 July 2026 Information on surviving family was not immediately available. — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026 By the time the story begins, their city has been sacked, their greatest warriors are dead, and the surviving Greeks are packing up to head home after an extremely long and violent road win. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026 Lots of acorns one year means lots of mice the next, which gives baby ticks a greater chance of biting a mouse and surviving long enough to bite us. — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 14 July 2026 The combination of an embroidery that old surviving intact all these years later and its thrilling telling of one of the most consequential battles in all of history just simply doesn’t have an equal. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surviving
  1. extant
  2. living
  3. lasting
  4. existing
  5. weathering
  6. prevailing
  7. current
  8. enduring
Adjective
  • Red dwarfs are very volatile bodies, giving off enormous amounts of X-rays and ultraviolet energy, both of which can destroy extant life or prevent it from getting started in the first place.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 July 2026
  • After Rogers left his job at the store, husband and wife had a go at a similar scheme, shilling aluminum cookware for the company Wear-Ever Aluminum (still extant as WearEver Cookware).
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
Definition of extant
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  • Backup generators, most of them diesel, don't run clean, and the communities living closest to data centers absorb that cost too.
    — Anna Demeo, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • When the family pulled her maternal grandmother, Mary Ann, from assisted living during the pandemic, Schiller became her primary caregiver.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of living
Verb
  • How lasting that business could be will depend on whether the shortage of AI infrastructure persists.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 July 2026
  • The companies that create lasting value will build the infrastructure that allows healthcare organizations to confidently rely on information collected outside traditional clinical settings.
    — AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of lasting
Adjective
  • Prosecutors said the exec also feared that refusing to sell the pre-IPO stock would hurt the company’s pre-existing partnership with the sheriff’s department.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 23 July 2026
  • This might not be realistic if existing contracts have locked in pricing for multi-year deals.
    — Amir Hudda, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of existing
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  • Mexico punished the Czech Republic’s sloppiness with aplomb after weathering their opponents’ good start, scoring all three goals in the second half.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 11 July 2026
  • But weathering the tensions and refashioning the alliance for the future will require more than billion-dollar deals and verbal diplomacy.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026
Definition of weathering
Verb
  • Which, in addition to mourning, was the other prevailing sentiment in the shop.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 23 July 2026
  • The council on Tuesday voted unanimously to defer the matter to the future, as councilmembers doubted the measure’s chance of prevailing given its $1 million price tag and late timing in the election season.
    — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
Definition of prevailing
Adjective
  • The current trophy, officially named the FIFA World Cup Trophy, has been used since 1974, when West Germany were the first recipients.
    — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • The defense plan calling for a 15 billion pound ($20 billion) spending boost is much smaller than military leaders had sought and has been criticized for not being fully funded under the current budget.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
Definition of current
Verb
  • Keegan later moved into management, revitalizing Newcastle ​United and taking ​the club to ⁠the brink of the Premier League title in the mid-1990s before enduring a more difficult spell as England manager.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • The best thing about this tournament, though, were the fans who left an enduring image.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026
Definition of enduring

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