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pertaining to living persons;
"within living memory"
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true to life; lifelike;
"the living image of her mother"
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(informal) absolute;
"she is a living doll"
"scared the living daylights out of them"
"beat the living hell out of him"
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still in existence;
"the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"
"the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
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still in active use;
"a living language"
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(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried;
"carved into the living stone"