life preserver
noun
1
: a device (such as a life jacket or life buoy) designed to save a person from drowning by providing buoyancy in water
2
chiefly British
: blackjack sense 2
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Even Nietzsche, master exposer of escape fantasies, treated Italy as a life preserver.
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Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Technically, the Gulf States saw Yemen drowning long before the Arab Spring, but never sought to toss it a life preserver.
—Farea Al-Muslimi, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2015
Others pass orange life preservers to those at the bottom.
—Russ Bynum and Emily Wagster Pettus, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
All of the signage had been changed to be Tommy Hilfiger branded, and the life preservers were changed out to be branded as well.
—Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2024
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Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Technically, the Gulf States saw Yemen drowning long before the Arab Spring, but never sought to toss it a life preserver.
—Farea Al-Muslimi, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2015
Others pass orange life preservers to those at the bottom.
—Russ Bynum and Emily Wagster Pettus, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
All of the signage had been changed to be Tommy Hilfiger branded, and the life preservers were changed out to be branded as well.
—Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Life preserver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life%20preserver. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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