Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant.
Daniel's copy of The Shadow of the Wind is the last one extant; someone is determined to destroy all the copies.
Moorehead, who had access to all of Gellhorn's extant correspondence and diaries, does not indulge in speculation.
It seems that Harries was influenced by some of the Keating haters extant at the time.
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)
