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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

These reflections occurred to me on descending from the summit of the peak of Teneriffe, the first unextinct volcano I had yet visited.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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 Phelps, William Lyon

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 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins