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preserve

[pri-zurv] / prɪˈzɜrv /


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Its body settled into fine lake sediments, where unusually favorable conditions helped preserve it in exceptional detail.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

Co-sponsored by a mix of Republicans and Democrats, the bill could help preserve the conference-based rights marketplace on which ESPN’s college-sports business depends.

From Salon Sep. 15, 2026

That distinction matters for Delhi, which wants to preserve its relationships with nations at odds with each other.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Government departments told AFP they aim to integrate rural areas into the development project, but that Chan's ancestral houses were not culturally significant enough to preserve.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

There are few surviving accounts detailing the relationship, but it was likely an arranged marriage: youths—Mollie was only fifteen at the time—pressed together to preserve a vanishing way of life.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

And if you start — or end — the meal with Wisconsin cheese, don’t skip the apricot preserves alongside it.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

"Equal Earth preserves the relative surface areas of continents and, as much as possible, shows their shapes as they appear on a globe," one of the cartographers, Bojan Savric, told AFP in 2025.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

Instead he prefers a single reminder to all that preserves team unity.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

The researchers showed that their method preserves the same computational hardness criteria associated with RCS, meaning the problem remains extremely difficult for classical computers.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

His dad had taken the lock off when Benji was five because he'd barricaded himself in and painted the walls with organic blueberry preserves.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

Many were exceptionally well preserved, including delicate silica structures such as hair cells.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

Less than 1% of what constituted the towers’ total steel was preserved, cataloged and eventually transported domestically and internationally as part of a program launched by the Port Authority in 2009.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

The preserved skeleton includes several major bones, making it unusually informative for a dinosaur of its kind.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

Some of what I most want preserved about Sept. 11 is the shared grief of those first days and the ways ordinary people revealed their humanity under unimaginable circumstances.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

Remaining old-growth trees as well as the devastated area were preserved.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Second, U.S. companies should promote cooperation among democracies to mitigate risks while preserving their technological edge over China.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Remarkably, evidence of that ancient meal survived in fossilized feces, preserving what researchers describe as the finest feather specimen yet discovered from the age of dinosaurs.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Rosales adores our pictures as much as we do, if not more, and “East of the River” confirms her boundless affection for the women whose likenesses and cultural contributions she’s devoted to preserving.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

"My personal concern is about the need for affordable social housing for young people and preserving the heritage, the special character, of the area," said Susanna Kow, a member of the Save Brick Lane campaign.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

They respond to the age of exploration and discovery, but only with the intention of preserving and protecting the conceptual apparatus of traditional philosophy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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