lifework
Example Sentences
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There followed a long period when silent films were virtually unmarketable, and the lifework of many actors and directors disappeared into warehouses or dissolved into silver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Wiener’s lifework and his failure to predict its consequences are intimately bound up in the idea of an impending technological singularity.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2019
"They feel that Disney is undoing their lifework of conserving wild animals for future open seasons."
From Time ● Aug. 8, 2017
A science prodigy, he planned a career in the field until he discovered that his lifework had been usurped.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2013
Now tell me why we have no papers, no printed materials written by this great artist about his lifework?
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
