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Princeton's WordNet

  1. surviving, livingadjective

    still in existence

    "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"

Wikipedia

  1. surviving

    Survival skills are techniques that a person may use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment or built environment. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life which include water, food, and shelter. These skills also support proper knowledge and interactions with animals and plants to promote the sustaining of life over a period of time. Survival skills are often associated with the need to survive in a disaster situation. Survival skills are often basic ideas and abilities that ancient people invented and used themselves for thousands of years.Outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, fishing, and hunting all require basic wilderness survival skills, especially in handling emergency situations. Survival skills are also often used by people living off-grid lifestyles such as homesteading. Their are also instances of survival skills being utilized by criminals, such as fugitives, draft dodgers, poachers, serial killers, illegal immigrants, escaped prisoners, organized criminals and terrorists that hideout in wilderness areas between the commission of crimes, to avoid capture by authorities. Additionally both park rangers and conservation officers are also taught survival skills, to help them find missing persons and in case they themselves become stranded while investigating wilderness crimes. The United States Armed Forces has a training program called SERE, in which military personnel, Department of Defense civilians, intelligence personnel, and private military contractors are taught survival skills, evading capture and techniques for escape from captivity, in the event that they need to survive and hideout in wilderness areas while avoiding capture by enemy combatants. Bushcraft and primitive living are most often self-implemented but require many of the same skills.

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  1. surviving

    Surviving generally refers to the act of remaining alive or continuing to exist, often in spite of difficult circumstances, challenges, or threats. It encompasses physical survival, such as staying alive in harsh environmental conditions, as well as emotional or psychological survival, such as overcoming trauma or adversity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Surviving

    of Survive

  2. Survivingadjective

    remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs

British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'surviving' in Adjectives Frequency: #948

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of surviving in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of surviving in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of surviving in a Sentence

  1. Texas County Coroner Tom Whittaker:

    Nobody has been able to confirm that, i know that the sheriff is planning on interviewing surviving family members to try to make some sense of this. We’ll kind of let things settle down a little bit.

  2. Alex Podebryis:

    The thing that upsets me the most is just seeing these young kids... what are their chances of surviving ? A lot of the young men will have to fight without military experience. The hardest part is knowing that these people who love Ukraine the most are ones who will die first, it's hard to watch the city and everything that we built the last 30 years get bombed and destroyed in front of our eyes.

  3. Robert Whitaker:

    What was different about this study was it showed that family connection is associated with thriving and not just surviving or avoiding harm.

  4. Dave McGrail:

    Surviving Middle School : An Interactive Story for Girls.

  5. Virginia Roberts Giuffre:

    We need her to talk, but she doesn't deserve a plea deal, surviving Jeffrey Epstein.

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