surviving

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In the pandemic, a slide portrayed surviving startups as winged unicorns escaping a gulch—the “Valley of Coronavirus.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Dubbed Don Colossus, the statue depicts the president on that fateful afternoon in Butler, Pennsylvania, moments after surviving what would turn out to be the first of many attempts on his life.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

Panish represents the boys’ parents, Nancy and Karim Iskander, and their surviving son, Zachary.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

"It had not come to my attention and at that point, I had not really considered the surviving victims."

From BBC • May 27, 2026

However, if Brunelleschi had mastered the geometry of perspective as early as 1413 it becomes a little difficult to explain why there are no surviving paintings which embody these principles before 1425.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton