Meaning & use
extant
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Still in existence; not lost, destroyed, or extinct.
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Only a handful of extant copies of the original manuscript survive today.
The museum houses the oldest extant example of the printing press.
A note on using this word
Almost always used to describe old documents, species, or artifacts that have survived to the present day.
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