lifework

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Recent Examples of lifework That Miyazaki’s lifework is now grist for the generative-A.I. mill might be not only an insult but a copyright infringement. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2025 Among the influencers in those meetings was Arturo Schomburg, a Puerto Rican historian of African descent who, as a young child, often wondered about the lack of African history taught in his classrooms, an interest that formed the cornerstone of his lifework of research and preservation. Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2025 From a restricted viewing area not far away, Louise Prockter, a graceful scientist with sandy hair, glanced at a countdown clock and then back at the rocket, which carried her lifework. David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024 Among the influencers in those meetings was Arturo Schomburg, a Puerto Rican historian of African descent who, as a young child, often wondered about the lack of African history taught in his classrooms, an interest that formed the cornerstone of his lifework of research and preservation. Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2025 Plus: Big Tech’s swearing in Amanda Petrusich remembers Garth Hudson An origami master who lost his lifework in the L.A. fires What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction? Erin Neil, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025 Young artists want to reclaim their vision READ PART 2:Native art, Native artists: Breaking down the 'wall': Indigenous art masters inspired to rebel against gatekeepers How an accident led to a career Pruitt came to his lifework literally by accident. Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024 How an accident led to a career Pruitt came to his lifework literally by accident. Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024 Don Luigi Ciotti, a seventy-nine-year-old priest, has become a household name in Italy for his lifework as an anti-Mafia activist. Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifework
Noun
  • After his ordination, Prevost went to work as a missionary Peru.
    May 8, CBS News, 9 May 2025
  • His pastoral work and multicultural background resonated with Pope Francis, who brought Prevost to the Vatican in 2023.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • In Europe and North America especially, the faith of our ancestors has been in a decades-long retreat—pews emptying, vocations dwindling, parish doors shuttering.
    Christopher Hale, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • Prevost was pastor of vocations and director of missions for the Augustinian order in Chicago and worked in Peru for several years teaching canon law.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Gates claimed that coders, energy experts, and biologists are the only professions safe from AI in the next decade.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • And that’s not to say that everyone that’s been released, and that’s not just pro wrestling, that’s any profession.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • In a little over a month, the Polish Army was defeated, and the country of Poland came under Nazi and Soviet occupation.
    Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
  • Vita's Ukrainian mother (my grandmother) survived as an orphan for two years under German occupation and barely evaded being carted off to Germany to work as a forced laborer.
    Sasha Vasilyuk, Time, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Tony had just returned to employment at the store, freshly sober and needing a job.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
  • Phyllis Hope Stitt, 61, worked at the Employment Development Department as an employment program representative, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • Projects like these may make living in your starter home more enjoyable, but your money will be better spent on the actual structure of your home.
    Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 9 May 2025
  • As with programming across the Totoy portfolio, its aim has been to offer entertainment with educational value, promoting healthy living and positive values among children.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • After all, their livelihoods were born out of their heavy presence online.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 16 May 2025
  • Ambrose has to go trawling in increasingly dangerous waters to make ends meet and put food on the table but, when his livelihood becomes too precarious, he is forced to look for work further afield and out of his comfort zone.
    Malcolm Forbes, Boston Herald, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Their mission is to store and process data generated on Earth or by other satellites.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 16 May 2025
  • As North America’s widest-reaching all-women wrestling organization, WOW blends elite athleticism with dramatic storytelling, all with a mission to empower, inspire and elevate women and fans worldwide.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 16 May 2025

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“Lifework.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifework. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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