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Discover LudwigThe phrase "the extant" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to something that still exists or is still in existence. Example: The extant manuscripts of Shakespeare's plays provide valuable insight into the playwright's writing process. In this sentence, "the extant manuscripts" refers to the manuscripts that are still in existence.
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The extant Fort Moultrie dates from 1809.
She sent out all the extant volumes for reëvaluation.
These numbers are only the extant species, those alive today.
The extant texts reveal little about Sargon himself.
That story doesn't surface in the extant sources until Plutarch, half a millennium later.
The extant network of orchestras and opera houses is an artifact of a very different America.
The science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin, for instance, announced that literature "is the extant body of written art.
But a surprising number of the extant 46 City churches retain much of their original atmosphere, architecture and furnishings.
It is precisely because of the extant mythology of black subservience that these scenes pack such a cathartic payload.
The desire for self-expansion through material success fully dominates the extant spiritual ideals of traditional religions and cultures.
It was incorporated earlier than 1135, the date of the extant charter.
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