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civilization

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


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“If we destroy civilization, we don’t get that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

The most notable material is the rise of its first technological civilization just over a million years ago.

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 civilization has an opposite, it is war.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

And could other advanced, independent civilizations have also flourished within China’s current borders before their subjugation?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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 their argument, Schwitzgebel and Pober estimate that at least 1,000 behaviorally sophisticated extraterrestrial civilizations have existed somewhere in the universe.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

For thousands of years, as civilizations waxed and waned, these three art forms—painting, sculpture, and architecture—embodied the ambitions, dreams, and values of their cultures.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell




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