alive to
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"While Al Fayed is no longer alive to face prosecution, we have always been determined to bring anyone who is suspected to have played a part in his offending to justice," Craggs added.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
“I want everyone alive to have free, clean water, food, healthcare, education, shelter/housing, and have more time to pursue passions and hobbies. Is that really so radical??”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
The DUP minister said he was "alive to the implications of overspending" and its ramifications in future years.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
Her fiction, so alive to sensory experience and the interior struggles of the mind and heart, helped extend the literary tradition of Virginia Woolf, a modernist whom Welty deeply admired.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
I was unfettered, alive to an earth I hardly knew but was eager to explore.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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