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verb

ˈliv How to pronounce live (audio)
Definition of livenext
1
as in to reside
to have a home he lives next door to the hospital

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2
as in to be
to have life Socrates was a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece

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live

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adjective

ˈlīv How to pronounce live (audio)
1
as in operating
being in effective operation didn't realize that the microphone was live and proceeded to make some rather indiscreet comments

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2
as in breathing
having or showing life there is a tank of live lobsters sitting at the front of the restaurant

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Recent Examples of live
Verb
The house was built in 1956 and has a living area of 2,571 square feet. — Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026 New York — Artificial intelligence is a game-changing technology that’s already transforming how the world lives and works. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Adjective
SoFi’s customer service is available daily over the phone or live chat, and many borrowers can request a dedicated advisor. — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026 Weiss launched a series of town halls called Things That Matter, with anchors and correspondents interviews high-profile guests in front of a live audience. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for live
Recent Examples of Synonyms for live
  1. reside
  2. be
  3. operating
  4. alive
  5. dwell
  6. exist
  7. operational
  8. living
Verb
  • Reportedly Hall still resides there, and the exes are still listed in documents as the house’s co-owners.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 13 Aug. 2026
  • However, the version of Greg that came clean to Denise about being fired, stopped drinking, and stepped up for his family now resides in the belly of a dinosaur.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of reside
Verb
  • The benefit of different formats The average club pre-season lasts six weeks, so there is a lot to cram in — and a regular 90-minute friendly does not always allow all your players the necessary game time.
    — George Edwards, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • New York City — There is an ever-growing love story between the game of golf and basketball.
    — Omar Jimenez, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of be
Adjective
  • That sits on the books of the league’s 32 Equity investment arm, and 1/32 of any gains or losses in the entity flow through the Packers’ non-operating income.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 24 July 2026
  • True, some if the upside surprise has come from non-operating gains on holdings in huge, private AI pioneers, but not all of it.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 June 2026
Definition of operating
Adjective
  • The battle sequences in this finale are awful, elaborate, and grotesque, especially Ormund using children as human shields and Daemon burning them alive.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
  • But Sabalenka converted a spinny kick second-serve ace, keeping her faint hopes alive.
    — Lukas Weese, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of alive
Verb
  • Commentary, however, has dwelled on a darkness of another sort, that of a thin artist gotten thinner.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Continuing to dwell on this hurt will not be helpful at this point.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of dwell
Verb
  • Traffic in the waterway remains at less than a fifth of pre-war levels, and no genuinely safe shipping route exists in the region, according to a maritime intelligence group.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • For Minnesota, that could mean a new technology pathway built around an existing mining industry.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of exist
Adjective
  • Disney will also provide operational oversight though the new park will be operated by Miral which is contracting Disney's Imagineers – architects named after their imaginative use of engineering – to design it.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Announced on August 13, the project will use Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicle to approach, examine, and remove spacecraft nearing the end of their operational lives.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of operational
Adjective
  • At the time, Rice was an account executive for PadSplit, an online co-living rental marketplace, where users can rent rooms in shared living spaces.
    — Diamy Wang August 15, Charlotte Observer, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In other words, the priority among agent-detecting organisms of many kinds seems to be to separate those forces of change that are alive from those that are non-living.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
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“Live.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/live. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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