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• Perissological resonators can reveal relationships extant in various domains like kinship, exchange, death, marriage etc.2020, Niraj Kumar, George van Driem, Phunchok Stobdan, Himalayan Bridge, page 87. From the entry perissological
• It is proportionally smaller than in any other pleurodeline, extant or extinct.2015 October 1, “An Extremely Peramorphic Newt (Urodela: Salamandridae: Pleurodelini) from the Latest Oligocene of Germany, and a New…. From the entry pleurodeline
• Only four xenarthran families are extant today, providing little indication of the past richness of the order.2008, Christine Argot, “3: Changing Views in Paleontology: The Story of a Giant (Megatherium, Xenarthra)”, in Eric J. Sargis, Marian…. From the entry xenarthran
• The palaeoheterodonts are an extant, Ordovician–Recent, group characterised by heterodont to schizodont dentition.2006, Robert Wynn Jones, “Principal Fossil Groups”, in Applied Palaeontology, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press…. From the entry heterodont
• Extant beaded lacewings are rare, slender, small to medium insects that have a worldwide distribution.2001, George O. Poinar, Raif Milki, Lebanese Amber: The Oldest Insect Ecosystem in Fossilized Resin, page 40. From the entry beaded lacewing
• While antiquitarianism developed in the Sung, examples of clerical extant from the 10-12th centuries are rare.1987, Hsien-yü Shu’s Calligraphy and His “Admonitions” Scroll of 1299, page 192. From the entry antiquitarianism
• As for Bodhidharma the only painting extant is too late to have been done from life.1985, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 3, in Quinx, New York: Viking, page 61. From the entry diplopia
• There is extant among the old Grimoires a prayer attributed to the St.1922, Éliphas Lévi [pseudonym; Alphonse Louis Constant], “Legends”, in Arthur Edward Waite, transl., A History of Magic: Including a Clear…. From the entry grimoire
• All extant species lift the distalmost tarsomere permanently off the substrate and primarily use their euplantulae for locomotion.2024 October 25, “Diversity of attachment systems in heelwalkers (Mantophasmatodea) – highly specialized, but uniform”, in…. From the entry heelwalker
• Extant scholarship and theory tends to overlook and mis-theorize the role that marginal actors play in organizational change and development.2017, Seth A. Jacobson, Marginal Matters. From the entry mis-theorize
• Matius's mimiambs have not survived complete, but the extant remains may not be unrepresentative of his general style of writing.2014, Costas Panayotakis, “Hellenistic Mime and Its Reception in Rome”, in Michael Fontaine, Adele C. Scafuro, editors, The Oxford…. From the entry mimiamb
• Nevertheless Neopythagorean treatises are extant that were written in Alexandria at the end of the first century B.C.2013, Helene Foley, Reflections of Women in Antiquity, page 311. From the entry Neopythagorean
• UPGs are judged by extant lore when available and relevant, by its fitting in to Heathen practice in some coherent way.2013, Kenaz Filan, Raven Kaldera, quoting Jordsvin, Talking to the Spirits: Personal Gnosis in Pagan Religion, page 177. From the entry UPG
• The Liao were responsible for building the tallest and oldest extant wooden pagoda, the famous Timber Pagoda in Ying county, Shanxi.2002, Guo Daiheng, “The Liao, Song, Xi Xia, and Jin Dynasties”, in Nancy S. Steinhardt, editor, Chinese Architecture, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry ying
• From the hoplological perspective, Japan's koryu bujutsu are among the last extant hand-to-hand battlefield martial fighting arts in the world.1997, Diane Skoss, editor, Koryu Bujutsu: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan, Koryu Books, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry hoplological
• In the last century some scholars even persuaded themselves that it was the archetype of the whole extant tradition.1990, Martin L[itchfield] West, “Manuscripts”, in Ernst Heitsch, Ludwig Koenen, Reinhold Merkelbach, Clemens Zintzen, editors, Studies in…. From the entry archetype
• He be a winged unicorn, the finest equine flesh extant, the adoration of every fair and innocent maiden.1984 August, Piers Anthony, Bearing an Hourglass, Del Rey Books, published 1992, →ISBN, →OL, page 171. From the entry alicorn
• What had induced the deceased to make a fresh will, with the old one still extant, he could not say.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 153. From the entry deceased
• While texts in Sirayan and other aboriginal languages are lost, there is still a substantial extant corpus of texts in Sinckan and Favorlang.2016, Ulrich L. Lehner, Richard A. Muller, A.G. Roeber, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800, →ISBN. From the entry Sirayan
• Postcranial pneumaticity is absent in all other extant vertebrates with the known exceptions of osteoglossomorph fish and the hyoid bone in howler monkeys.2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed…. From the entry osteoglossomorph
• Six of the nine extant tephritoid families have been found in Finland: no richardiid, ctenostylid or pyrgotid have been found in the country.2014 September 19, Jere Kahanpää, Kaj Winqvist, “Checklist of the Diptera superfamilies Tephritoidea and Sciomyzoidea of Finland…. From the entry tephritoid
• The oldest extant paper cutting is a simple symmetrical circle from the sixth century that was found in a far western province of China.2011, Natalie Avella, “Introduction”, in Laura Heyenga, compiler, Paper Cutting: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Craft, San Francisco…. From the entry cutting
• Not a single extant Virgilian manuscript survives from the ninth century, despite the number of ninth-century manuscripts of Virgil's works and commentaries on his works.2008, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Michael C. J. Putnam, The Virgilian tradition: the first fifteen hundred years, →ISBN, page 439. From the entry Virgilian
• Although they probably were built almost everywhere, the evidence of the extant instruments indicates that they were more common here than elsewhere.1978, Edward L[eon] Kottick, “A Short History of the Harpsichord”, in The Harpsichord Owner’s Guide: A Manual for Buyers and Owners…. From the entry clavicytherium
• Pristis is no longer indicated to be sister to all extant batoids except torpediniforms and may be a member of a clade including guitarfishes and rajids.2012, Jeffrey C. Carrier, Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, CRC Press, page 80. From the entry rajid
• One of the most elaborate extant examples of this genre is a speech by Libanius, an ethopoeia of Medea as she is about to kill her children.2012, Irene Peirano, The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake, →ISBN, page 258. From the entry ethopoeia
• Felids are represented by 17 extant species, which cover nearly two orders of magnitude in body size, and hyaenids include the three ossiphagous species of this family.2010, Borja Figueirido, Juan A. Pérez-Claros, Vanessa Torregrosa, Alberto Martín-Serra, Paul Palmqvist, “Demythologizing Arctodus simus…. From the entry ossiphagous
• But rather than drawing on extant rich stories about female superheroes, contemporary comic-based movies either downplay their powers and their personalities or rewrite them as trashy high camp.2008 September 19, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting Alyssa Rosenberg, “Why is Hollywood ignoring She-Hulk?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry high camp
• The extant verses deal with the usual subject of love, cup-bearers, songs, dances, music; there is no shortage of tightrope walkings, virtuosity and artificiality typical of Arab poetry.2007, Vito Salierno, “Arab-Norman Sicily”, in Islam and Pakistan’s Identity, Lahore: Iqbal Academy Pakistan, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry tightrope walking
• All the extant voices participate fully in the decani-cantoris split at that point, so one is tempted to assume that the tenors split into decani and cantoris parts as well.1988, Gordon Paine, Howard Swan, Five Centuries of Choral Music: Essays in Honor of Howard Swan, page 105. From the entry decani
• We find, fortunately preserved in the extant Avestan texts, some material that gives us a vivid idea of the importance which the ancient Iranians attached to the fulfilment of contracts.1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 113. From the entry Avestan

Meaning of extant

1. adjective Still in existence; not having disappeared.
2. adjective Still alive; not extinct.
3. adjective Standing out, or above the rest.

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How do you use extant in a sentence?

Extant is used as an adjective. For example: “There are many narrow-gauge systems still extant.”

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“birds are the only extant dinosaurs”

What does extant mean?

Extant means still in existence; not having disappeared.