lifework
noun
life·work
ˈlīf-ˈwərk 
: the entire or principal work of one's lifetime
also
: a work extending over a lifetime
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Don Luigi Ciotti, a seventy-nine-year-old priest, has become a household name in Italy for his lifework as an anti-Mafia activist.
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Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
What has defined his lifework has been the 30 months between the two.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
What could be better for any author than for his lifework to become a reader’s lifework, too?
—Yiyun Li, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2023
The current Wiseman revival can arguably be traced back to 2014, when Venice gave the director an honorary Golden Lion for his lifework.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Pampanin, who now works for the mayor’s civil rights division, received a private showing of Whitten’s lifework, from the early portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with black and green olives in the foreground.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2021
But plenty of Haitians do, including other artists and students hoping to make art their lifework.
—Websder Corneille, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2023
This has been my lifework, as a futurist turned presenturist.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2023
Getting African art accepted into Western art museums was a lifework for many of them.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
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Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
What has defined his lifework has been the 30 months between the two.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
What could be better for any author than for his lifework to become a reader’s lifework, too?
—Yiyun Li, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2023
The current Wiseman revival can arguably be traced back to 2014, when Venice gave the director an honorary Golden Lion for his lifework.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Pampanin, who now works for the mayor’s civil rights division, received a private showing of Whitten’s lifework, from the early portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with black and green olives in the foreground.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2021
But plenty of Haitians do, including other artists and students hoping to make art their lifework.
—Websder Corneille, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2023
This has been my lifework, as a futurist turned presenturist.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2023
Getting African art accepted into Western art museums was a lifework for many of them.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
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lifework
noun
life·work
-ˈwərk
: the entire or chief work of one's lifetime
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