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lives

noun as in history, biography

verb as in inhabit a dwelling

verb as in enjoy being alive

verb as in make money to support living

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The whole essay is about how stories are failing, how at various moments in most writers’ lives language feels slippery and useless, stories too sensical and coherent to have anything at all to do with the life we’re trying to hold.

From Time

Mindy Kaling knew what she was doing when she titled her new HBO Max comedy The Sex Lives of College Girls.

From Time

They’re often searching for fitness ideas, diet tips, ways to manage their professional and personal lives and leisure activities in their hybrid work-life reality.

X González came out as bisexual closer to the March for Our Lives rally.

This is essentially an “all lives matter” response to Hollywood’s silence breakers—and though Lou is hardly framed as a hero, his monologue reverberates through the episodes to come.

From Time

Toomey lives here with her husband, Mark, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and their two daughters.

The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.

Excerpted from Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray.

We have richer, healthier lives and more meaningful relationships of all kinds.

Faal told the FBI that his group was trying “restore democracy to The Gambia and improve the lives of its people.”

Big Reginald took their lives at pool, and pocketed their half-crowns in an easy genial way, which almost made losing a pleasure.

All felt strangely as if something evil had crept into their lives, and their excitement was great.

The fight lasted two days, and only two men out of the five hundred escaped with their lives.

Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

They tobogganed down hills without a brake at the imminent peril of their lives.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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