survival

Example Sentences

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Its fight for survival means it is unlikely to topple quickly regardless of internal pressure or external strikes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Her children are creepily strange and familiar at once, body-snatchers whose survival skills far outpace her own.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Researchers believe the exaggerated length of the male palps may serve a crucial survival function.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

Its founder Ella Rauen-Prestes said after years of steady growth, the focus right now was "simply survival".

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

The majority of Britons and other Europeans then depended on a few wealthy people for employment and survival.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz