the living

noun

: people who are alive
the living and the dead
The world belongs to the living.

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Choose between one bedroom and one living room, or utilize the living room space to add up to an additional three bedrooms in the house. Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2025 As another high-traffic area, the living room can quickly become cluttered with items that don’t belong. Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2025 Prosecutors said the girl’s father returned to the Newtown Road house later that evening and discovered Silvia Castillo dead with stab wounds in the living room and his daughter on the floor with more than a dozen knife wounds. Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 19 Nov. 2025 My suite had two entrances to the balcony — one from the bedroom, one from the living room — and waking up to the ocean stretching endlessly below was unforgettable. Essence, 18 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the living

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“The living.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20living. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.

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