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- adjective Not
extinct ; stillliving .
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Examples
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But it is in the love of unextinct animals that Mr. Hodgson's poetic powers find their most effective display.
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century William Lyon Phelps 1904
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His experience had been so wide and varied that he now had only to be shown a bone of fact and almost instantly he visioned in their completeness unextinct ichthyosauri of business.
Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902
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That person was a woman well over eighty, but a marvel of vitality and unextinct youth.
The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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This war continued to rage more or less violently for several years, frequently slumbering, sometimes breaking out with sudden violence, like the fitful eruptions of the still unextinct volcanoes in those distant, regions.
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This war continued to rage more or less violently for several years, frequently slumbering, sometimes breaking out with sudden violence, like the fitful eruptions of the still unextinct volcanoes in those distant regions.
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These reflections occurred to me on descending from the summit of the peak of Teneriffe, the first unextinct volcano I had yet visited.
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These reflections occurred to me on descending from the summit of the peak of Teneriffe, the first unextinct volcano I had yet visited.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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It all goes to show that nature can be rather a tease - just when you think it's all over for a particular species, up pops a rarity, looking distinctly unextinct.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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