preservation
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To Liu, items like the speaker are worthy of preservation because some of them are only getting rarer and rarer to find.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Library film preservation specialists spent a week restoring the film reel frame-by-frame and digitizing it.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
This type of preservation is more commonly associated with famous Cambrian fossil sites such as the Burgess Shale in Canada.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
Today it is in the Library of Congress, with its bottom third torn off, demonstrating that the first copies of the Declaration were made for immediate use rather than historic preservation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The focus that day was on the preservation of the natural landscape and of the intricate web of life whose interwoven strands lead from microbes to man.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing preservation
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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