civilization
Example Sentences
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Depending on who investors read, the SpaceX IPO will either end Western civilization while ruining working-class retirement funds or usher in an AI-enabled global utopia, generating trillions in profits.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Electricity rewired civilization but took four decades to show up meaningfully in productivity data.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
With Dataland, Refik and Erkılıç have constructed a conceptual defense against contemporary cultural anxieties, rejecting the narrative of machine versus human to reframe artificial intelligence as a mirror reflecting civilization.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
The researchers emphasize that the study does not predict a sudden collapse of civilization.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
He was a thing of the wild, come in from the wild to sit by John Thornton’s fire, rather than a dog of the soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of civilization.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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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