life-sustaining
adjective
: helping someone or something to stay alive : supporting or extending life
life-sustaining medical treatment
The storm brought life-sustaining rain/water to the farms.
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Plants need sunlight to create life-sustaining food.
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The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
As the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) increasingly investigates white dwarf systems, however, Whyte and colleagues developed a model capable of assessing if two key life-sustaining processes could occur in the range of orbits around a white dwarf temperate enough to allow liquid water to exist.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Future astronauts traveling to the moon may have easier access to life-sustaining water and extractable ice than previously thought, according to new research.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 7 Mar. 2025
For that reason, astronomers will use the mission to search in our own Milky Way galaxy for such life-sustaining ingredients within interstellar molecular clouds of gas where planets and stars form.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
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The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
As the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) increasingly investigates white dwarf systems, however, Whyte and colleagues developed a model capable of assessing if two key life-sustaining processes could occur in the range of orbits around a white dwarf temperate enough to allow liquid water to exist.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Future astronauts traveling to the moon may have easier access to life-sustaining water and extractable ice than previously thought, according to new research.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 7 Mar. 2025
For that reason, astronomers will use the mission to search in our own Milky Way galaxy for such life-sustaining ingredients within interstellar molecular clouds of gas where planets and stars form.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
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“Life-sustaining.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-sustaining. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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