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The University of Utah Seismograph Stations has preserved decades of seismic records, creating a valuable archive for modern analysis.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

In Marc’s case, the disease has taken a path that for now has preserved his ability to talk about life with what one doctor called “the most difficult of all neurologic diseases.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025

This fossil bed, Dr Kligman said, has preserved evidence of an evolutionary "transition" 200 million years ago.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025

So far the EOT Archive has preserved sites after elections in 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2025

The promises are contained in that same wondrous discourse of our Lord to His Apostles, of which St. Luke has preserved for us another portion in the passage just transcribed.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)