survives
- present tense form of survive (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The opinion insists that courts do more than identify a historical cousin to a modern law by examining whether the analogy survives scrutiny once its details are unpacked.
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2026
A stubborn idealism survives the many horrors the novel describes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
After dating for several years, in 1997 he married NBC-TV correspondent Andrea Mitchell, who survives him.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
I’m a senior who barely survives on $1,300 a month.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026
No record survives of Tisquantum’s first journey across the Atlantic, but arithmetic gives some hint of the conditions in Hunt’s ship.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
