battle of life
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"Really it was a battle of life and death," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
The artwork shows what Stretford-born Lowry, who died in 1976, described as the "battle of life".
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2024
“You have got to do your very best every day because this is a battle of life versus death.”
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2021
Then from Christmas, when Hope was born, to the New Year, when we marshal our armies to fight the battle of life again.
From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2012
Any slight reserve may be attributed to reasonable vexation that he had grown old and scarred in the battle of life while time with me had apparently stood still.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen