facts of life
Example Sentences
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Sooner or later, those feelings — and the economic facts of life — may catch up with the president.
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2025
After hearing the late CBS basketball commentator Billy Packer admonish college coaches to recognize the hot hand phenomenon, a friend of mine sent him my textbook summary of Gilovich’s team’s facts of life.
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m not sure these qualify as the most basic facts of life.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023
Its existence is one of the most basic facts of life: The snow falls, the sun shines, the seasons turn, the Earth spins.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022
In a sense, we shall be obliged to swing back again, still believing in the new way but constrained by the facts of life to live in the old.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
