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as in operating
being in effective operation
a living tradition of the holiday season a living culture that has survived a number of foreign invasions
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as in existing
having being at the present time
there are fewer than a dozen living former presidents
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as in breathing
having or showing life
is your hamster still living?
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as in realistic
closely resembling the object imitated
an outdoor museum that is a living re-creation of a typical New England village circa 1840
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as in livelihood
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as in residing
to have a home
he lives next door to the hospital
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as in being
to have life
Socrates was a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece
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Recent Examples of living
Jon Hamilton, NPR, 3 Mar. 2026
Custom drapery can enhance serenity and flow in living spaces, bedrooms and reading nooks, creating an ambience reminiscent of the local coffee shop or bookstore.
—Gretchen M. Stone, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2026
Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
Despite their conviction that government makes things worse, 78% of disillusioned voters support the Roosevelt Institute’s Good Life Agenda—a sweeping platform of healthcare affordability, living wages, expanded retirement security, housing investment, and worker protections.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026
Communities living near these sites often preserve language, music and traditions that bring the ruins to life in ways the stones alone cannot.
—Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
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Adjective
Now, scientists have created a highly efficient AI model that hints at how living brains are able to do so much with so little, a team reports in the journal Nature.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 3 Mar. 2026
Custom drapery can enhance serenity and flow in living spaces, bedrooms and reading nooks, creating an ambience reminiscent of the local coffee shop or bookstore.
—Gretchen M. Stone, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
And just like his first film, Boosters takes the prospect of scrambling to make a living in America to absurd extremes.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
Despite their conviction that government makes things worse, 78% of disillusioned voters support the Roosevelt Institute’s Good Life Agenda—a sweeping platform of healthcare affordability, living wages, expanded retirement security, housing investment, and worker protections.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Verb
Since 1990, the number of people living outside their country of birth has nearly doubled, surpassing 300 million worldwide in 2024.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026
Communities living near these sites often preserve language, music and traditions that bring the ruins to life in ways the stones alone cannot.
—Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for living
Adjective
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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
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Exxon operates some of the wells directly and holds a financial, non-operating interest in the others.—
Rachel Nostrant,
Houston Chronicle,
26 Jan. 2026
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Younger generations are struggling to save for retirement, while existing retirees increasingly must go back to work to make ends meet.—
Joshua Rivera,
Vanity Fair,
8 June 2026
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However, unless select patients have a predisposition to depositing plastics plus the usual pre-existing risk factors, the plastics are likely a cause of the vascular events.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
Adjective
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None of this felt realistic, especially not Colman Domingo’s sawed-off-shotgun-wielding Ali shooting up Alamo’s club in his mentee Rue’s honor, shattering a mask of poise that had defined his character (like the whiplash of Khaleesi’s end of Game of Thrones rogue era).—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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Critics, including some of the country’s largest education networks, say the government’s framework does not provide a fair or realistic measure of success for creative professionals.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
2 June 2026
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The wide-scale dismantling of dams and water barriers has been criticised by some farming groups and policymakers who have raised concerns about potential impacts on land use and rural livelihoods.—
Chas Newkey-Burden,
TheWeek,
3 June 2026
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This has raised the risk of fires incurring heavy financial costs, and that of flare-ups engulfing people’s livelihoods.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
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This is due to strong angler demand, easy access to saltwater and solid infrastructure, along with a strong variety of fish residing along the state's prominent coastline.—
Lexi Lane,
PEOPLE,
30 May 2026
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In a complaint unsealed in New York, authorities identified the employee as 36-year-old Michele Spagnuolo — an Italian citizen residing in Switzerland who has worked for Google since 2014.—
Wyatte Grantham-Philips,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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But building much larger vessels — the Defiant class is intended to displace roughly 30,000 to 40,000 tons — would only inflate costs and create fatter targets, without offering dramatically new operational capacity.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2026
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The entire Starship program, however, is far behind schedule, with 12 launches of the rocket in the past three years—some successful, some not, none qualifying the giant machine as anywhere close to operational.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
29 May 2026
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Experts are particularly concerned about the safety of the cheetahs, as no extant cheetah populations coexist with tigers in the wild.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 June 2026
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Despite the game’s authenticity to real pinball, Space Cadet wasn’t based on an extant physical table, but was merely one part of the Full Tilt!—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
26 May 2026
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Production used 350 litres of fake blood, 3 million litres of water and broke the world record by burning 23 people alive in one take, and the latter not even for the Battle of the Gullet.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
4 June 2026
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On a day in mid-July, three men kidnapped a bus full of schoolchildren and forced their captives into an underground bunker where they were buried alive.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 June 2026
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“Living.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/living. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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