civilization
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Ask one of those AI agents that isn’t plotting to take down civilization and boil us all in a giant tub of bacon grease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
It’s bleak slapstick about how audiences should react to the end of civilization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
We already know that a super-eruption on this scale would be a threat civilization as we know it.
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
Packard-Grams has long been fascinated by the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, and by the countless works of literature, philosophy, and science that disappeared before scribes could make surviving copies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Historically, advanced civilizations have flourished in the cooler climates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Human civilizations across the ages have understood this to be an important lesson, which is how gold became the go-to cautionary symbol for greed, vanity, and the hollow existence to which they lead.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Mr. Cobb sometimes subbed for their Social Studies teacher, and he always managed to slip in a story about the Vietnam War, even when their class unit was on ancient civilizations.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Vocabulary lists containing civilization
We the People: Civ
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Mesopotamia - Introductory
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Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires - Introductory
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