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The words, "Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your freedom!" refer to what?

preserve

[pri-zurv] / prɪˈzɜrv /


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Steaming, microwaving, or quick sautéing tends to preserve nutrients best.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

But she’s been campaigning for Black votes as well, issuing a policy paper recently promising to protect renters and champion “reparative policies that help Black families build and preserve wealth.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Teeth can preserve chemical clues about an animal's diet and surroundings, allowing researchers to investigate environmental conditions from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

For Wilson, the arrangement offered a way to preserve the congregation without requiring it to shoulder the entire cost of maintaining and redeveloping the property.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

If you are ever going to be involved with the work on this preserve, you will need to learn to cope with certain unpleasant realities.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

The achievement is particularly significant because the improved algorithm preserves the overall runtime of the earlier approach while expanding the range of distances for which reliable estimates can be guaranteed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Your prenup preserves your financial independence, but it doesn’t deal with your emotional codependence — that takes work on both your parts.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

When that much is going out, it feels especially good to do something small that preserves a little energy for me.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

It preserves the merger rather than blocking consolidation, while relying on monitoring, production requirements and penalties to limit its consequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

It’s not a real cellar—no shelves for preserves or rations for nuclear fallout—just a temporary safety pod.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

An international research team led by the University of Vienna made the discovery by analyzing ancient DNA from rare human remains and traces of human genetic material preserved in cave sediments.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Our memories of the dead may be more accessible than ever, preserved in photographs, social-media posts and digital archives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Sotheby's described "Jodi" as an "excellent exhibition-ready" skeleton with about 191 fossil-bone elements and a "beautifully preserved, virtually complete skull".

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

As these sediments accumulated, they preserved the orientation of the magnetic field at the time.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

For you must know that much is still preserved of ancient lore among the Rulers of the city that is not spread abroad.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Its role "is built on a simple principle - preserving life," Detective Superintendent Andrew Evans said.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Picard, the actor’s greatest TV legacy, is a paragon of grace: empathetic, dedicated to a mission of understanding and devoted to preserving what is best about Starfleet.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Sometimes it was about preserving wildlands and habitat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

How should we think about the trade-offs between spending more now, preserving financial flexibility for the future and leaving a charitable legacy?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Farmer seemed to care less about the notion that someone should be considered innocent until proven guilty than about preserving a thin-edged calm in a jittery country.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French


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