Word Finder - survivor

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One who survives, especially one who survives a traumatic experience.

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From this moment on, I choose to live not as a victim, but as a survivor.

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A person who is able to endure hardship.

synonyms

• tough cookie
• trooper

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One who knew a specific decedent.

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She was from a large family and had many friends, so the funeral was crowded with mourning survivors.

He's a survivor, and now he's the hero of the neighborhood.

This uncle was an old companion of La Perouse and a survivor of the expedition in which that navigator perished.

While she mourned Howie's passing she is a survivor and always has been.

The leadership now devolved upon Simon, the last survivor of the sons of Mattathias.

Bernard was succeeded in 1706 by his three sons, Ernest Louis, Frederick William and Anton Ulrich, but after 1746 the only survivor was the youngest, Anton Ulrich, who reigned alone from this date until his death in 1763.

Andrew Innes, the last survivor, died in 1848.

Where there is no will one-half of the residue of the separate personal estate goes to the survivor if there are issue, and the whole of it if there are no issue.

You were the only survivor.

This solitary survivor of an ancient stock is almost extinct, but a few old and presumably wild trees are recorded by travellers in parts of China.

But he arrived too late; Selim had already been killed; the unworthy Mustafa was put to death, and Mahmud, the sole survivor of the house of Osman, became sultan.

In 1870 the duke of Saldanha, the last survivor of the turbulent statesmen of Queen Maria's reign, threatened an appeal to arms if the king would not dismiss his minister, the duke of Louie, an advanced Radical and freemason, whose influence, dating from the reign of Pedro V., was viewed with disfavour by Saldanha, as well as by more conservative politicians.

He was the only survivor of the Anglo-Saxon bishops when he died on the 18th of January 1095.

Did they verify I was the only survivor?

In 1712 George Hickes was the only survivor of the nonjuring bishops, and in the next year Collier was consecrated.

The survivor of trauma may feel fearful or depressed.

She is also a breast cancer survivor, being diagnosed with the disease in 2006.

Bob Crowley won the most recent Survivor - Survivor Gabon.

Yes, pinup model Sugar made it to the final three, but it was not so surprising that she received zero votes from her former fellow Survivor mates.

Instead, Bob Crowley won Survivor Gabon and left Gabon with the $1 million purse and teacher/hairdresser Susie came in second.

Survivor Gabon marks the 17th season of the show and there are rumblings that host Jeff Probst's contract is up after the next two seasons.

Former Survivor and current co-host on The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck is pregnant.

For that purpose the names of all male children born just after the death of the deceased Great Lama are laid before his survivor.

The entirety of his history with Past-Death unfolded before her, from the moment Past-Death discovered the seventeen-year-old Gabriel, the lone survivor of demon attacks led by Darkyn.

Quite why the good folks responsible for bringing us Resident Evil Survivor did so with no huge fanfare is a mystery.

It confronts serious issue of AIDS such as safer sex, combination therapies, survivor guilt and returning to work.

Take care, Tim The Passion on-line magazine can be found on the Soul Survivor website.

The sole survivor of the team becomes chief suspect in the ensuing international manhunt.

Arguably, Des Pres ' Survivor presents a phantasmagoria of pain and suffering.

The sole survivor of the ancient Celtic line was an infant Norwegian princess.

The only survivor was Dave Lister the chicken soup machine repairman.

The latest review of " Blues Survivor " can be found just below the downloads section.

But we also have areas where each team alone can, in theory, rescue every survivor.

Richard is now the sole legitimate survivor of the House of York.

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Clearly, what is needed is a gathering of oral histories encompassing all forms of survivor testimony including sustained dialog.

Their design was miraculously frustrated - according to the Aeginetan version, the statues fell upon their knees, - and only a single survivor returned to Athens, there to fall a victim to the fury of his comrades' widows, who pierced him with their brooch-pins.

It is a harmless helmeted ground-shark, living on molluscs, and almost the sole survivor of a genus abundant in the Secondary rocks of Europe.

Where there is no issue and the deceased dies intestate the surviving spouse is entitled to the whole estate, both real and personal, if it does not exceed $2000, and if it exceeds that sum the survivor is entitled to $2000 and one-half of the remainder; if there are no kindred, the whole of the estate goes to the surviving spouse.

Though the aquatic members of a class of animals are in some instances derived from terrestrial forms, the usual transition is from an aquatic ancestry to more recent land-living forms. There is no doubt, from a consideration of the facts of structure, that the aquatic water-breathing Arachnids, represented in the past by the Eurypterines and to-day by the sole survivor Limulus, have preceded the terrestrial air-breathing forms of that group. Hence we see at once that the better-known Arachnida form a series, leading from Limulus-like aquatic creatures through scorpions, spiders and harvest-men, to the degenerate Acari or mites.

After some years of hard and The year ended with another great victory at Fredericksburg successful work in this capacity, "the last survivor of the old Th v.), Chancellorsville (see Wilderness) won against odds martial prelates, fitter for harness than for bishops' robes, for (q of two to one, and the great three days' battle of Gettysburg a court of justice than a court of theology," died at Shrewsbury o (q.v.), where for the first time fortune turned decisively against in June 1543.

Llewelyn's brother, now David III., designated by the English " the last survivor of that race of traitors," for a few months defied the English forces amongst the fastnesses of Snowdon, but ere long he was captured, tried as a disloyal English baron by a parliament at Shrewsbury, and finally executed under circumstances of great barbarity on the 3rd of October 1283.

The rights of dower and courtesy have been abolished, and husband and wife have instead equal rights to inherit property from the other; but the portion of the property of a deceased spouse that descends to the survivor varies from one-fourth to all according to whose and how many are the children concerned.

The leaf-like female figure has the air of a survivor; her sinewy frame suggests the capacity for endurance.

A blues survivor, whose career spans over seven decades.

New survivor handling considerations may see the introduction of a new strop in the near future.

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It meant they must have thought I was a survivor of the massacre there earlier this year.

Perhaps you are a survivor of abuse seeking information for yourself.

Christy Smith is famous for being the first deaf contestant on the reality TV show Survivor.

Many mill survivor stories are posted at pet advocacy sites such as the Humane Society and mill rescue organizations.