lifer

noun

Definition of lifernext
1
as in con

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as in veteran

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Recent Examples of lifer That’s how a baseball lifer ends up without baseball. — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 17 June 2026 And Rudd, as the happy mid-lifer who can’t help wanting a little more, is appealing in that characteristically boyish, Rudd-like way, though there’s also something deeply wistful about him. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 May 2026 Dude’s an Avs lifer, as well as being the guy who won UCHealth’s Cale Makar lookalike contest at Ball Arena back on May 13. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 25 May 2026 One more football lifer fighting for his dream. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 10 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for lifer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifer
  1. con
  2. veteran
  3. convict
  4. combatant
  5. jailbird
  6. warhorse
  7. prisoner
  8. draftee
Noun
  • Gaiam yoga mat cons Gaiam yoga mats don’t always have the best quality compared to other brands.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
  • Pros & cons 5% cash back rewards on category of choice for **Chime Prime members.
    — Ryley Amond, CNBC, 10 July 2026
Definition of con
Noun
  • The Phillies and Major League Baseball are teaming up to help veterans in the Philadelphia area this All-Star Week.
    — Dan Snyder, CBS News, 14 July 2026
  • While there has been talk of avenging that conflict on social media, the Argentina news outlet Clarín shared a letter from veterans of the Falklands War.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
Definition of veteran
Noun
  • He is listed among the two hundred convicts who arrived in Sydney aboard the barque Norfolk in August 1829.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • The new bill has a broader base of legislative support and instead uses the preference distinction to incentivize hiring former convicts as opposed to the 15% quota.
    — Evelyn Ronan, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
Definition of convict
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  • They were controlled by two sets of levers, with plastic buttons that made the combatants throw left jabs and right uppercuts.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • But combatants in the subcontinent were unaware of the initial truce that had been made in the West, and dozens more battles took place around the world.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 2 July 2026
Definition of combatant
Noun
  • But these jailbirds aren’t using their own fingers to fire off missives or create clones.
    — Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
  • And these seven crooked cops are just the tip of the MSP jailbird iceberg.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2026
Definition of jailbird
Noun
  • The two old warhorses spent six years together at Madrid and won four Champions League titles.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • Strange but true; there could be a little more life in this old warhorse yet.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 June 2026
Definition of warhorse
Noun
  • Alicent and Helaena will be held prisoner until Aemond is found and killed.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 July 2026
  • The river has risen again and again, and in 1993, the Mississippi did not go over the levee, at first, but under it, burrowing a tunnel like a prisoner seeking freedom.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of prisoner
Noun
  • The accomplishments of the fathers or uncles of those draftees loom large.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
  • Logan Webb had to stop throwing harder and focus on the movement of his pitches, becoming an All-Star as a high school draftee when peers such as Brady Aiken or Tyler Kolek — the top two picks of the 2014 draft — didn’t make the majors at all.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of draftee

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“Lifer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifer. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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