from life
idiom
of a painting, drawing, etc.
: from looking at an actual person, object, etc.
drawings done from life rather than from photographs
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Though machines revived her, she was declared brain dead, and five days later, her parents consented to remove her from life support.
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Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Pornosexuals are clearly not the only people out there in the process of retreating from life.
—Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
She was removed from life support Tuesday at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, where hundreds of witnesses looked on, video shows.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
What once provided a soft transition from life to death also carries past lives of its own.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
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Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Pornosexuals are clearly not the only people out there in the process of retreating from life.
—Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
She was removed from life support Tuesday at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, where hundreds of witnesses looked on, video shows.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
What once provided a soft transition from life to death also carries past lives of its own.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
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“From life.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/from%20life. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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