How to Use survival instinct in a Sentence
survival instinct
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After a while, a sort of austere survival instinct kicked in for me.
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Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
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This is antithetical to every survival instinct in your body.
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Amber Harding Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
16 June 2026
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With Khamenei’s regime, and his life, on the line, the resistance instinct must be warring with the survival instinct beneath that black turban.
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Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
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Her toughness is a result of loss — her father’s death and the disillusionment of witnessing her mother’s affair — shaping a survival instinct that keeps her guarded.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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His new films taps into the mood in his native Russia in 2022 with a twist-laden tale of privilege, betrayal, jealously, primordial survival instinct and compromise in a Russian provincial city.
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
20 May 2026
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