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The first-gen social media lifers—I’m including myself in this—are going to have such bad PTSD from being so online for so long.
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Jason Parham, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
Dennis Muilenburg, a Boeing lifer, was fired in 2020 while the company was trying to convince regulators to let Max jetliners resume flying after crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.
—David Koenig, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024
The Democratic nominee is the 61-year-old Suozzi, a Long Island lifer, former three-term congressman and polished political operator.
—Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
Luckily, the artist in residence is restless rock-and-roll lifer Kim Gordon, formerly of Sonic Youth and more recently of Glitterbust and Body/Head.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 5 June 2024
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Jason Parham, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
Dennis Muilenburg, a Boeing lifer, was fired in 2020 while the company was trying to convince regulators to let Max jetliners resume flying after crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.
—David Koenig, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024
The Democratic nominee is the 61-year-old Suozzi, a Long Island lifer, former three-term congressman and polished political operator.
—Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
Luckily, the artist in residence is restless rock-and-roll lifer Kim Gordon, formerly of Sonic Youth and more recently of Glitterbust and Body/Head.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 5 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifer
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Employers are wondering where this will settle, and weighing up the pros and cons.Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Then last year, Sell made a list of the pros and cons of returning to the tour.Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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His priorities include veterans’ rights, advocating for small businesses, protecting the border and education, according to his campaign website. AD-64 includes a portion of Los Angeles County and La Habra in Orange County.Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
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Also helpful is the kind of peer pressure among veterans who lead by example in terms of getting the proper amount of rest and recovery.Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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By 1898, 73% of Alabama’s state revenue came from convict leasing.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
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After years of searching, the solution is to abandon the planet, leaving everyone but the super rich behind to survive among the trash heap wasteland left behind, not to mention a whole colony of convict laborers now running amok.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
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Yang played the new bf of Grande’s son, and her competitive nature leads to heat between the combatants.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed over 43,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its toll but says over half of those killed were women and children.Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Movies Review: ‘Joker: Folie á Deux’ pairs two singing jailbirds but skimps on supervillainy Oct. 4, 2024 The movie was expected to fall short of the original’s impressive debut after generating only $7 million in Thursday previews.Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
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Twenty years later, an actress named Selma Vaz Dias, who wanted to dramatize Good Morning, Midnight on the radio, found her living in poverty and obscurity in the English countryside with a third husband who also ended an embezzler and a jailbird.Vivian Gornick, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
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The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
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At 33, Watt is young enough not to be tired of even the most familiar rock radio warhorses.Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
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Paul Sutton, Lori Sutton PRODUCERS: Paul Sutton, Lori Sutton Twenty-four prisoners – mostly lifers – sat across from a dozen students at a maximum-security prison yard in Southern California as part of an innovative 14-week, creative writing program.Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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Clips show Harris affirming her support for federal policies that allow federal prisoners access to medical care including gender-affirming hormone treatments and, potentially, transgender surgery.Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Proposition 6 would allow inmates to work at such jobs as a way to earn credit toward time off.Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
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State troopers are searching for two inmates who escaped from Blackburn Correctional Complex in Lexington Sunday night.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Lifer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifer. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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