civilization
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For Christian conservatives such as Vance, Hungary offers a vision of the world in which the United States would be one of a host of North American and European countries promoting a global Christian civilization.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026
Musk hasn’t been shy about aligning his companies to achieve his life’s ambition of building human civilization on Mars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” he wrote.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will," he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
In the same way, a rat civilization would probably never have built skyscrapers, since rats prefer to live underground.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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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