lifetime

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“Room” shows how arduous it can be to assimilate the rules and mores of the free world after a lifetime of captivity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The annual Governors Awards, launched in 2009, recognize lifetime achievement and significant contributions to filmmaking and the motion picture industry.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The upshot is that those premiums are, for the most part, guaranteed to remain fixed and never increase over your entire lifetime, as long as the monthly payments are maintained.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

This lack of a roughly circular orbit around the Sun suggested either an impact early in its lifetime that put it on this path, or gravitational influence from planet nine.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

Columbus was determined to insist that he had seen land first because Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain had promised a lifetime pension to the first person to sight land.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton