extant
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Five more projects that were realized are no longer extant.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
"Once we have the CT model from the fossil, we can take material properties from extant animals and make it as if our Thrinaxodon came alive," Luo said.
From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026
Julia Eichelberger, a Welty scholar and the editor of this collection, notes that the first extant letter between Lyell and Welty is from 1931, after they’d been at Columbia a year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
You could see details in saddles and costumes, and the building were still extant.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2024
Leaning back, tilting his important-style chair, he rummaged among the contents of the envelope until he came across what he wanted: the collected, extant data on the Nexus-6.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing extant
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