LIFEWORK Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

lifework

noun

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as in work

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Recent Examples of lifework Spreading that message is Bigtree’s lifework. —

Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026 Four years after Farmer’s death, Clinton reflects on preserving her mentor’s lifework in health care and remembers his tender tenacity. —

Chelsea Clinton, Vanity Fair, 24 Feb. 2026 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 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifework

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Barnes and Imam had been trading ideas with a scholar named Andrew Willard Jones, whose work focussed on the model of Christendom found in, say, High Middle Ages France, where society was organized around its relationship with the Church.

— Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
Sara Doody Mid-Century Lift-Top Coffee Table Apartment dwellers will love this space-saving coffee table with a convenient lift-top that doubles as a kitchen table and work desk.

— Ali Faccenda, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026