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as in biographies
a history of a person's life
a renowned historian who has written lives of several early presidents
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as in people
a member of the human race
an appalling number of lives were lost in the war
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as in times
the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress
the Egyptian civilization had an extremely long life
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as in lifestyles
the way people live at a particular time and place
frontier life must have been rugged, exciting, challenging, and more than a little dangerous
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as in is
to have life
Socrates was a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece
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Recent Examples of lives
Via Riverhead, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Authorities are trying to unravel what led two teenagers to open fire at the San Diego Islamic Center, killing three people before taking their own lives.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026
Gender distress plays a more pronounced role in the film later on, as two crucial scenes frame it as the insurmountable obstacle that prevents the entity’s targets from returning to a version of their previous lives.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Continue reading … IN OTHER NEWS MOB CHAOS — Soccer fans storm field in 22 minutes flat, forcing players to flee for their lives.
—FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
What had these lives actually been?
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Memorial grows at crash site A memorial at the crash site is growing by the hour, with flowers, candles and handwritten messages left behind for the young lives lost in the crash.
—Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 18 May 2026
Research suggests that 25 percent of all Connecticut children (34 percent of Hispanic children and 42 percent of Black children) will, at some point in their lives, live in a household with an open DCF case.
—James R Mason, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
Set in a Himalayan village in Sikkim, the film traces the lives of women across three generations of a single family – their emotional inheritances, unspoken histories and daily negotiations.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 May 2026
Joel Hron, Fortune, 19 May 2026
There's no health to monitor or lives to count, and very rarely any kind of fail state.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026
See yet another local official destroy ordinary workers’ lives to protect his own booze-raddled skin.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 May 2026
The average distance between where family lives and where the childcare is taking place has also been shortened, the mayor said.
—Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 19 May 2026
With a strip of commercial properties on the corner, including a popular restaurant and coffee shop, Hawkins-Wynn, who still lives a few blocks away, hopes the redevelopment will spur even more investment in the neighborhood.
—Stacker, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
The gap between deployment speed and governance maturity is where liability lives.
—Shiv Kaushik, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Another resident who lives near the home that burned — and saw flames come right up to their property — described to Fox11 racing back to their house to get their pets out of the residence.
—Sean Emery, Daily News, 18 May 2026
The spread of scams on Facebook is a burden not only for seniors but also for their families, said Marissa Garcia, who lives with her 79-year-old grandmother in Las Vegas.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 12 May 2026
Noun
The volunteer team was a diverse group of people, at different stages in their lives, and from various social and cultural backgrounds.
—Via Riverhead, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Authorities are trying to unravel what led two teenagers to open fire at the San Diego Islamic Center, killing three people before taking their own lives.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026
Gender distress plays a more pronounced role in the film later on, as two crucial scenes frame it as the insurmountable obstacle that prevents the entity’s targets from returning to a version of their previous lives.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Continue reading … IN OTHER NEWS MOB CHAOS — Soccer fans storm field in 22 minutes flat, forcing players to flee for their lives.
—FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
What had these lives actually been?
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Memorial grows at crash site A memorial at the crash site is growing by the hour, with flowers, candles and handwritten messages left behind for the young lives lost in the crash.
—Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 18 May 2026
Research suggests that 25 percent of all Connecticut children (34 percent of Hispanic children and 42 percent of Black children) will, at some point in their lives, live in a household with an open DCF case.
—James R Mason, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
Set in a Himalayan village in Sikkim, the film traces the lives of women across three generations of a single family – their emotional inheritances, unspoken histories and daily negotiations.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 May 2026
Verb
But strip away the drama, and what you’re left with is a genuine repricing of where enterprise software value actually lives.
—Joel Hron, Fortune, 19 May 2026
There's no health to monitor or lives to count, and very rarely any kind of fail state.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026
See yet another local official destroy ordinary workers’ lives to protect his own booze-raddled skin.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 May 2026
The average distance between where family lives and where the childcare is taking place has also been shortened, the mayor said.
—Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 19 May 2026
With a strip of commercial properties on the corner, including a popular restaurant and coffee shop, Hawkins-Wynn, who still lives a few blocks away, hopes the redevelopment will spur even more investment in the neighborhood.
—Stacker, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
The gap between deployment speed and governance maturity is where liability lives.
—Shiv Kaushik, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Another resident who lives near the home that burned — and saw flames come right up to their property — described to Fox11 racing back to their house to get their pets out of the residence.
—Sean Emery, Daily News, 18 May 2026
The spread of scams on Facebook is a burden not only for seniors but also for their families, said Marissa Garcia, who lives with her 79-year-old grandmother in Las Vegas.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 12 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lives
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Now Nicholas Fox Weber, the executive director of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation for more than four decades, as well as the author of previous biographies on the artists Balthus and Le Corbusier, seeks to remedy this oversight with an intimate new biography.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
9 May 2026
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Artists who aim to be as enigmatic as Allen often refrain from discussing their biographies, since doing so might impose an unwanted reading on the work.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
6 May 2026
Noun
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At times, officials in the Mayor’s office viewed Jeffries as an ally.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Some come out the other side of illness, but most loop through an unpredictable whirlpool, at times within sight of shore, at other moments spinning back out to sea.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
Noun
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Sedentary lifestyles feel normalized.—
John Samuels,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
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Homeowners have been attending recent Village Board sessions questioning the burden the data center campus may have on residents, current lifestyles and the rapid pace of the development.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
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According to his Instagram page, Lane still resides in Florida and works in the carnival circuit.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
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His skill level is so vast, but that skill resides in a body seemingly breaking down by the day.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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But there is still interest in games not involving the best available teams.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), there is no residency requirement to file a lawsuit challenging a project’s environmental review.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
Noun
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Ferrer’s memoirs are nuanced and deeply insightful, if sometimes a little too close to hagiography.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
15 May 2026
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The film crosses sites where camps once stood, setting them against diaries, memoirs and letters by prisoners.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
11 May 2026
Noun
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Somehow, Navarro countered with a cutter as both men crashed through the sea of chairs.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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In August 2025, Broward County Circuit Court Judge Marlon Weiss ruled on a case of two men living in France who petitioned for early parental rights while their gestational carrier was pregnant.—
Ann Marie Luft,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2026
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Yields fell across durations on Wednesday morning as nerves calmed, but narrowed on reports Starmer’s leadership rival Wes Streeting is preparing to resign as health secretary.—
Elsa Ohlen,Joseph Wilkins,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
13 May 2026
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That data consisted of random phone numbers and matches with names, call times and call durations.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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“Lives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lives. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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