Oliver E. Williamson

The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.

American Economist

Martin Jacques

In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely to be the extant superpower for several decades to come. Few anticipated how quickly the neoconservative project would run into the sands - or that China would rise so quickly.

British Journalist

Michael Finkel

There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It's this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times.

American Journalist

The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.

Rumaan Alam

It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.

American Author

Joseph Jacobs

Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.

Australian Historian

Richard Russo

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

American Novelist

Linda Colley

America is the proud possessor of the oldest extant written constitution in the world, which was for its time - 1787 - a highly innovative and important document.

British Historian

Bob Geldof

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.

Irish Actor

Henry David Thoreau

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Use 'extant' when discussing objects or traditions from the past that still exist today.

Historical Relevance

'Extant' emphasizes that something is currently in existence, despite what one might assume.

Present Existence

Use 'extant' to contrast with 'extinct', especially when referring to species that are still alive.

Contrast with Extinct

In legal contexts, 'extant' means a law or regulation is still in force and must be followed.

Legal Continuity

Use 'extant' to talk about current rules when discussing whether to update or repeal them.

Regulatory Relevance

Emphasize the continuing validity of a document, like a contract, with 'extant'.

Current Validity

 you know discerning exactly how the joints are moving in like an alligator walking on a treadmill or a bird flying in a wind tunnel we first have to appreciate and analyze what's going on in the living animals the extant dinosaurs before we can kind of back calculate

Reimagining Dinosaurs PIPE...

 and disappear in a firework of flames. But you either bring a letter or you write one there, and you burn it. And of course we know intuitively what is on those letters and postcards. It's a form of affection and love that is now no longer extant, yeah?