- present participle of survive.
surviving
Example Sentences
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El-Sayed is not merely surviving Fox News hits.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
This has made maintaining a presence in China more challenging, yet still essential for surviving the EV transition, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Humor was a way of surviving that period,” Mungiu recalls, “but it wasn’t funny at all.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
They would have needed to encounter one another often enough to interact while also surviving a hot, acidic, and chemically challenging environment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
This old lady, as far as I could gather, was just about the only surviving relative we had on either side of our family.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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