lifelong

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Lajos is born with skin so pale it is almost transparent, and while Mr. Biedermann soon ceases to mention the abnormality, it introduces Lajos’s uncanny lifelong sensation of invisibility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Jordan says the hiatus led them to reflect for the first time on whether their lifelong ambition was truly what they wanted.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

McMurtry’s stark assessment grew in part from a vexation that, despite his lifelong project to demythologize the cowboy, the ultimate American icon, his most celebrated book had the inverse effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

And best of all… it's a lifelong pledge of loyalty.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

He was genuinely interested in computers, not for their own sake but for their service to a lifelong obsession: the inner workings of the stock market.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis