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The words, "Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your freedom!" refer to what?

preserve

[pri-zurv] / prɪˈzɜrv /


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This might help preserve muscle strength even when a person's ability to exercise is limited.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Berlin has, for its part, asked the head of the Italian bank, Andrea Orcel, to preserve the role of Germany’s second-largest private bank in the country’s economy.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Stop reading now if you want to preserve the surprise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

It is often presented as a way for women to help preserve their fertility and, in some cases, delay motherhood.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Exception 2.—Words ending in oe retain the e to preserve the sound of the root: as, shoe + ing = shoeing; hoe + ing = hoeing.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

Your prenup preserves your financial independence, but it doesn’t deal with your emotional codependence — that takes work on both your parts.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

It preserves the merger rather than blocking consolidation, while relying on monitoring, production requirements and penalties to limit its consequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

And if you start — or end — the meal with Wisconsin cheese, don’t skip the apricot preserves alongside it.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The fossil belongs to Dendrocrinus simcoensis and preserves its tube feet, delicate structures that almost never survive fossilization.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Along with cinnamon buns, Eliza had packed hotcakes and ham, a crock of cherry preserves, another of garlic pickles, and a hard ball of cheese carefully wrapped.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The oldest known shipwreck where some of the wood is still preserved was found in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Although the scientists did not recover a complete skeleton, the preserved backbone provides important clues about the snake's enormous proportions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

One specimen, identified as Embryo No. 3, stood out because its DNA recording system had functioned particularly well and preserved the most extensive developmental history.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The technology is decidedly futuristic, but the company has deliberately preserved a person at the point of service.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Perhaps collectors who had read her two caterpillar books might wish to buy her watercolors—or her carefully preserved caterpillar and butterfly specimens.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

“Lufthansa Group is pursuing a clear strategic agenda: to support TAP Air Portugal’s growth while preserving its national identity and to sustainably strengthen Portugal’s connectivity, particularly with North and Latin America,” the group said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

However, they reveal a potential mechanism through which large genetic rearrangements could create new biological possibilities while preserving essential functions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

And while the future location of Punk Rock Bowling remains unsettled, Stern made clear that preserving the community that grew around it remains central to whatever comes next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Officials said they hope to balance the need to make cuts with preserving quality programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Such was the skill of the Chinchorro at preserving human flesh that scientists have been able to extract intact DNA from cadavers thousands of years older than the Egyptian pyramids.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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