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
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
Fewer copies of the Third Folio are reputed to be extant than of the Second or Fourth, owing to the destruction of many unsold impressions in the Fire of London in 1666.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
It is certainly a melancholy reflection, that any such books should be extant among us.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)
No copy of the Duke of Savoy’s Dominions appears to be extant.
From Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) by Barnard, John
