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life

[lahyf] / laɪf /






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Life is rarely simple, but retirement is nearly always complicated.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

"Life was pretty nice during the Ediacaran, so the need for sex was rather limited," said lead author Dr. Emily Mitchell from Cambridge's Department of Zoology.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

A day never passed when I didn’t have a jumbo pack of gum or a roll of Life Savers in my pocket.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Soundgarden founding member and guitarist Kim Thayil gives us “A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond,” out on June 9.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

In one year as a CDO manager, he’d taken home $26 million, the haul from half a dozen lifetimes of working at New York Life.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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