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unextinct

  • a word derived from extinct.
    extinct
    adjective
    no longer in existence; having ended or died out.

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Turn that phrase around, and you’ll see that the ability to clone two birds in a lab does not make a species unextinct.

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2013

This war continued to rage more or less violently for several years, frequently slumbering, sometimes breaking out with sudden violence, like the fitful eruptions of the still unextinct volcanoes in those distant regions.

From Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

This war continued to rage more or less violently for several years, frequently slumbering, sometimes breaking out with sudden violence, like the fitful eruptions of the still unextinct volcanoes in those distant, regions.

From Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

But it is in the love of unextinct animals that Mr. Hodgson's poetic powers find their most effective display.

From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps

That person was a woman well over eighty, but a marvel of vitality and unextinct youth.

From The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

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