Synonym: endurance, natural selection, selection, survival of the fittest. Similar words: survivor, vivacious, survey, rival, arrival, equivalent, surveillance, curve. Meaning: [sər'vaɪvl /sə'-] 
n. 1. a state of surviving; remaining alive 2. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment 3. something that survives.
n. 1. a state of surviving; remaining alive 2. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment 3. something that survives. 
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61. For the poorest people, life was merely a matter of survival.
62. His main concern is to ensure his own political survival.
63. The survival course was intended as a team building exercise.
64. Milt's career is an exemplar of survival in difficult times.
65. He owed his survival to his strength as a swimmer.
66. The survival of the proteins depends on the way in which bones are fossilised.
67. The cult is a survival from the old Zoroastrian religion.
68. Yesterday's meeting was intended to plot a survival strategy for the party.
69. All other issues fade into insignificance compared with the struggle for survival.
70. The fish are dependent for survival on the peculiarities of the environment that they live in.
71. The community depends on the shipping industry for its survival.
72. There is a low survival rate among babies born before 22 weeks.
73. Societies need to develop highly adaptive behavioural rules for survival.
74. As regards commercial survival, a car manufacturer capable of making only 50,(sentencedict.com)000 cars a year is on a hiding to nothing.
75. Human beings are infinitely flexible and able to adjust when survival depends on it.
76. He's got an instinct for survival in a tough job.sentencedict.com
77. He mistakenly ascribes the expression "survival of the fittest" to Charles Darwin.
78. The doctors told my wife I had a 50/50 chance of survival.
79. The cumulative process is directed by nonrandom survival.
80. Consequently generalizations about survival after diagnosis may be problematic.
81. Then they learn survival lies elsewhere.
82. Early detection of cancer improves the chances of survival.
83. Survival began, continued and was accomplished in the mind.
84. Certainly, all children must develop coping and survival skills.
85. Growth promoters will encourage root development and tiller survival.
86. The men possessed only the barest minimum necessary for survival.
87. To outsiders it seemed that the regime was becoming unstable and that its survival appeared more and more doubtful.
88. The independence wars are not freak events but desperate efforts at cultural survival.
89. Because survival rates decrease dramatically as the disease progresses, early detection is key, Dressler says.
90. Congress and the executive branch are often too immobilized by internal problems of political survival to take action on great national questions.
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