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US
/sɝˈvaɪvəɫ/
]
[ UK /səvˈaɪvəl/ ]
[ UK /səvˈaɪvəl/ ]
NOUN
- something that survives
- a state of surviving; remaining alive
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
How To Use survival In A Sentence
- You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
- A couple of the multicellular test subjects died and the invertebrates had a fifty-fifty survival rate.
- Ultimately biliary cirrhosis results and the median survival has been estimated to be 12 years.
- They are a technically reliable threat of last resort to discourage a foe from pressing too hard or threatening national survival.
- A higher intake was found to boost the chances of survival in 500,000 patients by up to 20 per cent. The Sun
- In some cases, difficulties arise because of a combination of less individualisation and low survival.
- And when I see how many people are being sucked into gold investments from all those cheesy radio and TV ads (with their overt or sometimes explicit survivalist overtones), I see another bubble being blown that at some sad point will go blooey. Fox Business News, Where Green Arrows Turn Brown Eyes Blue: James Wolcott
- Moving onto land may have been a survival strategy resulting from the need to abandon one shrinking body of water for another .
- All the issues of survival that we have discussed above must be subordinated to this ultimate imperative.
- The Tasmanian Devil is the world's largest marsupial predator but its very survival is at stake as an horrific cancer threatens up to 90% of its population.