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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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A systematic review of 25 studies published this year in The American Journal of Medicine found that prior authorization delays were associated not just with hospitalizations but with lower rates of disease-free survival.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

But one MP's analysis would have convinced Sir Keir that he was right – from the point of view of political survival – to have vetoed the mayor's candidacy.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Blocking HOXD13, VEGF, and adenosine pathways further demonstrated its importance for tumor survival.

From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026

The much harder work is getting out of survival mode — the all-consuming pressures of eternal presentism and perpetual crisis — and into a mode and discipline of building what comes after.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

Herbert Spencer—the philosopher who had coined the phrase survival of the fittest—had spent much of his life bedridden with various illnesses, struggling with his own fitness for survival.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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