remaining survivors

collocation in English

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remaining
adjective[before noun]
uk
/rɪˈmeɪ.nɪŋ/us
/rɪˈmeɪ.nɪŋ/
continuing to exist or be left after other parts or things have been used or ...
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survivor
noun[C]
uk
/səˈvaɪ.vər/us
/sɚˈvaɪ.vɚ/
a person who continues to live, despite ...
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(Definition ofremainingandsurvivorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theremainingsurvivorhad persistent tricuspid regurgitation with evidence of pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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Theremainingsurvivorwill be brought home as soon as he is fit to travel.
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Rescuers dug underneath the destroyed buildings by hand to search for remaining survivors.
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Fleeing for their lives through the wilderness and losing many of their party along the way, the remaining survivors eventually discover the local island town.
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Now that the youngest veterans are in their 80s, there are efforts to recognize their contributions by giving some benefits to the remaining survivors.
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The remaining survivors make their escape in a helicopter.
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Zee seems to have disappeared, and the remaining survivors climb into a boarded up shack.
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Meanwhile, the remaining survivors hear a radio transmission that reveals there are other pockets of resistance.
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The remaining survivors barricade themselves in the group study room.
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It was here that the remaining survivors of the flood latched their canoes to the peak and waited for the waters to subside.
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The humans who survived the attack have developed a plan to build massive spaceships which will carry the remaining survivors into space.
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The submarine's emergency buoy was located at 21:05 hours, and communications were established with the remaining survivors in compartment one, the forward torpedo room.
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The remaining survivors agree to work together to escape.
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The harsh conditions that result force the few remaining survivors to live underground for fifty years, during which time corporations come to power.
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Nima manages to grab the embryos as the three remaining survivors run for the boat.
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In the event that one or more them dies, the inheritance is split among the remaining survivors.
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