Word Finder - life

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The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.

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Having experienced both, the vampire decided that he preferred (un)death to life.  He gave up on life.

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The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.

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Lifeforms, generally or collectively.

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It's life, but not as we know it.   She discovered plant life on the planet.   The rover discovered signs of life on the alien world.

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A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)

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Many lives were lost during the war.   Her quick thinking saved many dogs' lives.

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Existence.

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Man's life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict.   the eternal life of the soul

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A period of time during which something has existence.

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Animation; spirit; vivacity.

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A biography.

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His life of the founder is finished, except for the title.

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Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.

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An opportunity for existence.

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The life insurance industry.

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I work in life.

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A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).

This is the life he was born for.

Life, as they say, is good.

The remaining vacation slipped by quickly and life returned to normal.

Now she wanted it more than life itself.

You can't spend your life terrified to leave the house alone.

Never in her life had she fainted.

Our republic has prospered because it fiercely protected life, liberty, and property, and must continue to do so.

The life in us is like the water in the river.

Señor Medena and Felipa returned to Texas and life returned to normal.

I can't go the rest of my life avoiding birthday cakes.

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life.

He has a mind to spend the rest of his life in that country.

Love your life, poor as it is.

Only that he had repeatedly saved her life - at risk of his own, no less.

In almost all aspects of life, the application of this process will bring improvements.

But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

But I am making a simple statement that life is better now than it has ever been.

Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.

If you weren't concerned about your own life, you might have thought about your chances of taking someone else with you.

Some day Michael would grow up and realize there was something more in life than conquest.

Life existed at a scale smaller than the eye could see.

Princess Ozma once brought him to life with a witch-powder, when she was a boy.

Life was simpler without emotional attachments.

How full of life and motion it was!

Life's too short as it is.

I've never been so frightened in my life.

Her life was on a new course now, and the future looked brighter than it ever had.

I loved you in this life and the last.

A few impressions stand out vividly from the first years of my life; but "the shadows of the prison-house are on the rest."

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

The additional possibility of access to all humans' Digital Echoes, to be studied for a million unnoticed causal correlations, will hasten the demise of disease as well and will increase quality of life and longevity.

To think of the right to life as somehow different than a right to food is hard for me.

They may not bump into them very often in what we call "everyday life" but do know them well enough to friend them.

Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.

Mr. Marsh was in a coma and attached to life support machines.

Because it's your life, Howie, I wanted to say but didn't.

I ruined his life.

We give each other life.

Life in general was going down hill for her then.

Life is anything but easy.

Pierre was staying at Prince Vasili Kuragin's and sharing the dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew's sister.

Alex doesn't want this kind of life.

He did save your life, you know.

I didn't grow up around here like you, and I don't intend to spend the rest of my life working at the diner.

The end of her life started this weekend.

So let's say your parents bought Coca Cola stock their entire life, left it all to you, and you are able to live off the dividend payments of the stock.

If your job numbs your mind by day, why would anyone expect it to instantly come to life at night?

The theory was that life in the workhouse had to be worse than life outside the workhouse, otherwise it would be overrun with the poor.

Although slavery still exists and the low price of slaves speaks to the low value of a human life, the legal institution of slavery is gone.