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survival

[ser-vahy-vuhl] / sərˈvaɪ vəl /
NOUN
continuation
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NOUN
something that survives
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NOUN
endurance
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When the same treatment was combined with the amino acid supplement, survival rose to 100 percent.

From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026

The Foxes need to beat promotion-chasing Hull City to give themselves any hope of survival, but, even then, results elsewhere this week could still seal their fate.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

The much harder work is getting out of survival mode — the all-consuming pressures of eternal presentism and perpetual crisis — and into a mode and discipline of building what comes after.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

The five-year survival rate for Stage 4 is 3%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

Even the language of his thoughts—variation, mutation, survival, and selection—bore striking similarities to Darwin's.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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