The extant literature on this view is substantial .
Some of the disparity stems from the Puritan strain extant even in the literary precincts of our culture.
Of course, the extant of that relationship is not yet known.
The goal was to determine the ranges of currently extant species.
No images of her as a young woman are extant.
The fact remains that there is only 1 copy extant.
Over the last decade, almost all of her extant writings have been translated and published or reprinted.
Some questions may be difficult to answer unequivocally based on extant data.
The rule of law must be extant before one can enforce law and order.
Some 60 of his sonnets, most of them in a burlesque vein, are extant.
British Dictionary definitions for extant
extant
/ɛkˈstænt; ˈɛkstənt/
adjective
1.
still in existence; surviving
2.
(archaic) standing out; protruding
Usage note
Extant is sometimes wrongly used simply to say that something exists, without any connotation of survival: plutonium is perhaps the deadliest element in existence (not the deadliest element extant)
Word Origin
C16: from Latin exstāns standing out, from exstāre, from stāre to stand
Word Origin and History for extant
adj.
1540s, "standing out above a surface," from Latin extantem (nominative extans), present participle of extare "stand out, be visible, exist," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Sense of "in existence" attested in English by 1560s.