be extant
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Does Avatar strike you as the sort of series that could still be extant in 20 or 30 years time?
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2010
A volume of this kind was known to be extant till the beginning of the last century; it was called the Red Book of Appin.
From The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology by Murray, Margaret Alice
Copies of these short letters are not known to be extant in any manuscript either Greek or Latin.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
Holograph Letters by Borrow are extremely uncommon, the number known to be extant being far less than one might have supposed would be the case, considering the good age to which Borrow attained.
From A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow by Wise, Thomas James
As they had persevered through the eons of the past, so they would in all the future; their civilization would be extant long after Man and his work had disappeared from the earth....
From The Brain by Blade, Alexander