preserver

Example Sentences

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Reflecting on the press, he later noted, "The press has pretensions of being a crusader but is more often a preserver of the status quo."

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025

I let myself play the victim twice — first of the debt itself, then of the life preserver tossed to bring me back onboard.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

Maybe, but Celine Dion wasn’t about to throw them a life preserver.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

The measure “was simply a life preserver that was being thrown or could have been thrown to schools to stem the crisis,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

Some crazy old lady rants stuff I know not to be true— and yet I choose to hold on to her words like a drowning man to a life preserver.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben