social life

noun

: the part of a person's time spent doing enjoyable things with others
I joined the club to improve my social life.
She has a busy/hectic social life. It seems like there's a party every week.

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Understanding networks, not just from the perspective of human social life, has had all kinds of consequences for our understanding of how diseases spread through populations, but also how brains are wired together. — Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2026 Women in the area have been finding ways to share the costs of lesbian social life for decades. — Tara Knight, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Nov. 2026 My midweek social life has shriveled, from negligible to non-existent. — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026 And that doesn’t even begin to touch the work that goes into making a podcast or managing my social life. — Jonquilyn Hill, Vox, 25 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for social life

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“Social life.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20life. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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