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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.
- 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.
- First, the impact of the sanctions on the population tend to make the latter even more dependent on the government than before, mainly for provision of the basic rations needed for survival.
- Who has the material to survive, people have a dream only talk about life. You have to understand life and life different Animal survival, while others life.