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Six example sentences with surviving, each labelled with its topic.
The only surviving copy of the charter sits in a Bruges archive, its seal cracked but its text legible.
History
Three surviving cast iron warehouses line the dock, and developers have spent a decade arguing about what to do with them.
Architecture
Fewer than sixty surviving individuals remain on the island, all descended from a single pair released in the seventies.
Environment
The only surviving manuscript of the poem is a copy made two centuries after the poet lived.
Literature
The surviving score is missing its final page, so every performance ends with a guess at the last four bars.
Music
Only nine surviving paintings are firmly attributed to the master, and museums argue about a tenth every few years.
Art
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