make alive

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The sophomore made her first and only 3-pointer of the game with 57 seconds left to keep her streak of games with a 3-point make alive at 51.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2023

Hours after being discharged from the Navy, I was on a train heading home�a trip I had never expected to make alive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contrast Christ's acceptance of this confidence in his power with Elijah's 'Am I a God, to kill and to make alive, that they send this man to me to recover him of his leprosy?'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

Am I God, to kill or to make alive, that thou sendest to me to recover a man of his leprosy? 

From Yeast: a Problem by Kingsley, Charles

They are a reflection of the belief that the deadly powers as well as the regenerative centre in one and the same deity, in his wisdom killing that he may make alive.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin