Example Sentences

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Barker: Here’s a key to how we have survived.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Dimon’s analogy is inaccurate — cockroaches are highly resilient insects that have survived for hundreds of millions of years.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

They have survived a ridicule-filled fortnight which included a fan going viral for drinking from a water bottle labelled 'Arsenal tears' and City striker Erling Haaland calling the Gunners boring on Snapchat.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

They have survived for centuries by working carefully with larger powers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

They spread out, searching for anyone who might have survived, but there was no one.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray