All 7 Uses

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Flags of Our Fathers
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The hollows swallow up people, and even history: Some of the speech patterns you hear today in those high little outposts are preserved from Daniel Boone's time, and those patterns in turn were transported across the Atlantic from the England of Shakespeare.†
Chpt 2.

preserved = protected or kept something as it was
They preserved their culture and their religious values in the two-room rented dwellings where they lived under the steel mills' glare, each little apartment building a link in the improvised chain of a new community.†
Chpt 2. *
Decades later, many would be found perfectly preserved, their eyeglasses still on.†
Chpt 13.
And he made clear that he knew who would bear the brunt of this campaign: In the last and final analysis it is the guy with the rifle and machine gun who wins the war and pays the penalty to preserve our liberty.†
Chpt 6.
Often it was the corpsmen themselves who died as they tried to preserve life.†
Chpt 9.
Mike reported to Lieutenant Schrier and explained the delivery of wire and batteries, and Johnson's desire to preserve the first flag.†
Chpt 11.
Their alertness, their finely tuned instinct for self-preservation, had inevitably deteriorated into a trancelike state.†
Chpt 13.

Definitions:

(1) (preserve as in: preserve the records)
to protect something or to keep it as it is
(2) (preserve as in: preserve the peaches)
to prepare food in a way that keeps it from spoiling
(3) (preserve as in: a wildlife preserve)
protected wildlife area
(4) (preserve as in: no longer a male preserve)
something exclusive to (someone or some group) -- such as an activity or place
(5) (preserves as in: mom made preserves)
chunks of fruit cooked with sugar (like jam) and sealed (usually in a mason jar) so it will not spoil
(6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)