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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.
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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
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
Noun
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But the organization needs resources to sustain its essential work and to achieve its laudable goal of ending elder hunger in the city in the next 15 years.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
4 Nov. 2025
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Many people took the day off from work and brought their children to take part in the festivities.—
Steve Futterman,
NPR,
4 Nov. 2025
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She was fed up with actors (like Maya Rudolph) dipping their toe into someone’s lifelong vocation and claiming to be an expert.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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Universities have abandoned soul formation in favor of vocation, losing their moral vision in pursuit of market metrics.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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And now, with the independence of the legal profession at risk, firms must advocate not just for their own clients, or for their short-term business survival, but for the profession itself.—
Fabio Bertoni,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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This, the medical profession maintains, is the stuff of fiction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The territory remained under Portuguese rule, apart from a brief Japanese occupation during the Second World War, until 1975, when a left-wing Portuguese government pledged to withdraw from all its colonies.—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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In this stratified society, citizens are divided into seven status levels that determine every aspect of their lives — from housing to occupation to food rations.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
29 Oct. 2025
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Ruha Benjamin, a sociologist at Princeton, has emphasized that AI can replicate and reinforce existing social inequalities in domains such as education, employment, criminal justice, and health care.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The stocks are in the employment payment and HR business.—
Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The newest in the collection have a studio layout with a lower-level living area and an upper-area bedroom, which then leads to a spacious bathroom with an outdoor shower.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Oct. 2025
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Weekly Newsletter Audiences were asked to consider that the display of human difference was dehumanizing or even exploitative but also to understand that the sideshow represented a locus of community and a way for disabled performers to make an independent living.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The mission will continue in your honor.—
Charmaine Patterson,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Each foundation must define its mission, yet there is real potential for philanthropy to act as a catalyst for creative financing.—
Anna Broughel,
Forbes.com,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Dourif seems to have truly found his calling within the horror genre.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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If the sheer distance Albert travels is inconceivable to those of us with more earthbound callings, his on-air stats are equally mind-boggling.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Lifework.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifework. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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