Alive
Alive adjective - Having or showing life.
Usage example: after crashing into the plate glass window the little bird was not only still alive, it seemed merely dazed
Extant
Extant adjective - Having being at the present time.
Usage example: a celebrated author who is generally regarded as America's greatest novelist extant
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- It is the most ancient and primitive extant amniote (amniotes = reptiles + birds + mammals), a survivor which has miraculously managed to be alive today, while all its relatives went extinct before the end of the Mesozoic.
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The most likely theories are that raptors used their claw like daggers, stabbing weak points like the jugular to kill larger game, or that they hunted like extant eagles; using the enlarged pedal claw as a gripping aid as the dromaeosaur ate the prey item alive while pinning it down with its feet.
Source: Raptor Attack -
Heroic Sacrifice: In JSA, Tyler, after being told by Rex Tyler that he is "as alive as any of us", decides to save his predecessor from his historical death by impersonating him before the time-villain, Extant.
Source: Comic Book / Hourman
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