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alive

[uh-lahyv] / əˈlaɪv /




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In Still Alive, Samay Raina gestures to that fragile balance: how jokes, once released into the online world, can travel far beyond their original context, taking on new meanings, and sometimes carry serious consequences.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Ian Buruma uses this forlorn exhortation as the title of his book, “Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Ms Sperling has a daughter and previously wrote in Christian magazine Woman Alive about life as a single parent.

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2025

Now, in "Is A River Alive?," that linguistic and ecological urgency deepens.

From Salon • May 28, 2025

“This is greensword. It shouldn’t be brown: it’s evergreen. Alive all year round.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell




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