How to Use survival in a Sentence
survival
noun
- The refugees depend on foreign aid for their survival.
- Small businesses are fighting for survival.
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In seven of the eight species, the survival rate has been 85 to 90 percent.
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Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Mar. 2024
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And for the people who taught me that, that was about survival.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
9 June 2023
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Still, the survival of the grasshopper sparrow is in doubt.
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Dexter Filkins,
The New Yorker,
17 July 2023
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The subject of the piece is the writer’s struggle for survival.
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Jared Marcel Pollen,
The New Republic,
12 July 2023
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The chances of my survival in these dire conditions would be slim to none.
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Ryan Hampton,
Time,
15 Aug. 2023
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She was too consumed by stress and the struggle for survival.
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Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2024
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What for some is a nuisance is for others a threat to survival.
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Javier Panzar,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Oct. 2023
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The Iliad’s subject is death, and the Odyssey’s is survival.
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Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
11 Sep. 2023
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For their long-term survival, both broadcast and cable news have the cash cow of live sports.
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Julie Hinds,
Detroit Free Press,
4 Mar. 2024
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Some say making them the ‘be-all, end-all’ of shows’ survival is risky business.
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Los Angeles Times Staff,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2023
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Both terms are used whether an event results in survival or death.
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Jan Hoffman,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2024
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For all stages combined, the five-year survival rate is only 12%.
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Gillian Telling,
Peoplemag,
1 Nov. 2023
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The Navy jet dropped survival packs to the three men and relayed their location to the rescue center.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN,
11 Apr. 2024
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Hope for his survival largely hinges on him being on a life raft.
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Hayes Gardner,
Baltimore Sun,
28 July 2023
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The spirit of survival is still there, [but] the direction is commerce.
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Crystal B. Shepeard,
Billboard,
7 Dec. 2023
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Once lung cancer spreads to other parts of the body, long term survival is as low as five percent.
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Vanessa Etienne,
Peoplemag,
18 Dec. 2023
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For Édouard Louis, revisiting the past is an act of survival.
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Tope Folarin,
The Atlantic,
29 Feb. 2024
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And specialist insects that depend on one plant species for their survival tend to pay the price when things go out of sync.
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Tovah Martin,
Washington Post,
27 Feb. 2024
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For woods, the sight of the test strips offered a window into the underground economies that support life and survival in New York.
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Jayson Buford,
Washington Post,
30 Sep. 2023
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It wasn't supposed to last this long, but survival was its only option.
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Jason Parham,
WIRED,
7 Aug. 2023
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She was born in the 1890s and, like most of the Osage of her time, went from living on the fringe of survival to fabulous wealth from their lands and minerals.
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TIME,
20 Oct. 2023
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Such a scenario could play out regardless of the junta’s survival.
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Avinash Paliwal,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Jan. 2024
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This latest attempt boasted the best survival rate to date—about 90 percent of the babies survived the transfer to the harbor.
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Molly Enking,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 July 2023
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The year saw miraculous tales of survival and brave acts by good Samaritans.
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Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
25 Dec. 2023
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But for the folks who are mid-career or starting out with maybe a second or third film, this moment is a moment of survival.
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Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2024
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Something that is so key to our well-being, our belonging and our survival.
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The Arizona Republic,
22 Apr. 2023
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Some Maui residents who escaped the blaze shared their stories of survival.
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Analisa Novak,
CBS News,
14 Aug. 2023
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After all, its survival after millions of years is proof of its success.
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Katie Liu,
Discover Magazine,
14 Dec. 2023
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