Sentence examples for be extant from inspiring English sources

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be extant

adjective

Still in existence.

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And: I would like to be extant in another version.

Many of the episodes happened too long ago for there to be extant witnesses to what, in any case, probably happened in private.

The New Yorker, April 8 , 1950 P. 23According to an A.P. dispatch from Lafayette, La., one of the 36 whooping cranes known to be extant was recently spotted in that vicinity by some conservationists.

They are defined as species which are "on the balance of evidence likely to be extinct, but for which there is a small chance that they may still be extant".

While the IUCN conservation status remains as critically endangered "because of an observed drastic decline in population and extent of occurrence, estimated to be more than 80% over the last 10 years, probably due to chytridiomycosis", a species cannot reach the next category of extinct in the wild "if there is any reasonable possibility that they may still be extant".

By E. B. White and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, April 8 , 1950 P. 23According to an A.P. dispatch from Lafayette, La., one of the 36 whooping cranes known to be extant was recently spotted in that vicinity by some conservationists.

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Books I V are extant.

None of Diodorus' writings are extant.

Anonymous 17th-century epithalamiums are extant.

No images of her as a young woman are extant.

At least 90 drawings for the project are extant.

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