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- noun Plural form of
survival .
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Examples
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All social codes are but the reflexes of existing economic conditions, plus certain survivals of past economic conditions.
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In carefully selected cases that meet criteria for possible renal salvage, survivals from a respiratory basis have been 95 percent, but renal outcomes have remained variable depending on severity and early age of obstruction in pregnancy.
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A very large number of words and phrases, many of them now exclusively American, are similar survivals from the English of the seventeenth century, long since obsolete or merely provincial in England.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 5. Archaic English Words Henry Louis 1921
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These habits were, in part, the fruit of efforts to translate the idioms of Gaelic into English, and in part, as we have seen, survivals from the English of the age of James I.
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 4. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences Henry Louis 1921
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All social codes are but the reflexes of existing economic conditions, plus certain survivals of past economic conditions.
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Country, relieved by the coarse jollities of Restoration London, and adorned for the most part, with debased survivals from the Italian and the French Renaissance.
Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893
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Let me start by saying we believe Cotara is an active drug, and it looks as good as anything else out there, in particular with the 8.8-month median overall survival and long-term survivals -- survivors that Joe just mentioned in our trials.
unknown title 2011
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Such long-term survivals are extremely rare but not unheard of -- even up to two weeks.
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Less than 5 percent of metastatic kidney cancer patient typically achieve long term survivals or a cure when treated with conventional treatments.
RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News 2008
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Less than 5 percent of metastatic kidney cancer patient typically achieve long term survivals or a cure when treated with conventional treatments.
RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News 2008
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