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survival

[ser-vahy-vuhl] / sərˈvaɪ vəl /
NOUN
continuation
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NOUN
something that survives
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NOUN
endurance
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Patients with high vitamin D receptor levels who received paricalcitol responded better to chemotherapy and had the longest overall survival following treatment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

A small group of scientists hope the key to unlocking its long-term survival is buried in the sand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

If there’s a path to transhumanism, which makes possible realization of otherwise unrealizable goals, such as survival of the species and an interplanetary future, it also starts here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The 20-year-old played a pivotal role as China beat hosts Japan to win the final of horror survival game "Identity V" in Nagoya.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

In later years, she told the story of the flight many times—always with a shiver in the telling and a sense of wonder at her own survival.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Most existing Celtic objects—found in bogs and burial mounds—are durable works in stone, bone, glass, metal and terracotta with rare survivals in wood, leather and cloth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

And there is Van Gogh's At Eternity's Gate - one of the very rare survivals of his first printmaking campaign during which he produced six lithographs in November 1882.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025

So, a therapy specifically aimed at preserving high intratumour heterogeneity may make sense according to this theoretical approach, as it may slow cancer growth and thus lead to longer survivals.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023

Iberia, too, had execution survivals that resolved in freedom for the executed.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2022

Gem-engraving and jewelry follow similar lines; pottery-painting for the most part remains geometrical throughout, with crude survivals of Mycenaean curvilinear forms.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various




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