survivor
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He is also a survivor of the calamitous 1999 floods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Last semester one team, led by a cancer survivor, proposed an AI-native care coordinator for cancer patients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Also compare your benefit with your spouse’s and consider how spousal and survivor benefits could affect your decision.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The 67-year-old breast cancer survivor, who consults on sustainable textiles and runs a small farmers market, would never have her own property sprayed with pesticides, but admits to having envied neighbors who did.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Ms. Gruwell had been talking for a long time about bringing in a Holocaust survivor named Gerda Seifer.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
In an email seen by the BBC, Brittan wrote to senior officers saying her email address had "been disclosed to 42 other survivors, and I have likewise been given access to their email addresses".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
They found a foothold in Elizabeth, N.J., where they joined a close-knit group of other Holocaust survivors who began building houses, and then entire neighborhoods, that formed post-war suburbs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The chances of finding earthquake survivors in Colombia dropped significantly on Friday, four days after the 7.4-magnitude tremor struck, though rescue efforts plowed ahead as hundreds remained missing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The frantic search for survivors has long since yielded to the grim spectacle of excavators clearing ruins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
They are survivors of everything that ever happened to everyone else.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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