lifetime
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Over a career spanning more than 60 years, she sold more than 100 million records, wrote more than 3,000 songs and won 11 Grammy Awards, including a lifetime achievement honour.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
A retired commercial shrimper and oil field worker whose wife drives a school bus, Miller fears having to leave his lifetime home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
"I think that this really is probably a once in a lifetime event," Kim Harrison, a 45-year-old retired teacher from California, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The lineup spans nearly nine decades of Brooks’ own lifetime: The oldest film he chose was released when he was 4; the newest came out when he was 93.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
From the hedge fund trading point of view it was the opportunity of a lifetime.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
You see it in the professionals, who play better golf than we could play in 30 lifetimes, but then bogey a crucial hole and return to the clubhouse emotionally crushed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Researchers say amphibians provide a window into the past because they don’t travel far during their lifetimes and are sensitive to climate change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Some of the resulting changes could persist for centuries and may not be reversible within human lifetimes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
With only a handful of lyrics, she revisits a million lifetimes replete with monumental change and insights only an artist of her caliber could convey.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Such societies might live to a prosperous old age, their lifetimes measured perhaps on geological or stellar evolutionary time scales.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
