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Recent Examples of lifework
Plus: Big Tech’s swearing in Amanda Petrusich remembers Garth Hudson
An origami master who lost his lifework in the L.A. fires
What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?
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Erin Neil, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025
Young artists want to reclaim their vision READ PART 2:Native art, Native artists: Breaking down the 'wall': Indigenous art masters inspired to rebel against gatekeepers
How an accident led to a career
Pruitt came to his lifework literally by accident.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
How an accident led to a career Pruitt came to his lifework literally by accident.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
Don Luigi Ciotti, a seventy-nine-year-old priest, has become a household name in Italy for his lifework as an anti-Mafia activist.
—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
Erin Neil, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025
Young artists want to reclaim their vision READ PART 2:Native art, Native artists: Breaking down the 'wall': Indigenous art masters inspired to rebel against gatekeepers
How an accident led to a career
Pruitt came to his lifework literally by accident.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
How an accident led to a career Pruitt came to his lifework literally by accident.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
Don Luigi Ciotti, a seventy-nine-year-old priest, has become a household name in Italy for his lifework as an anti-Mafia activist.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifework
Noun
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Cheney received the Presidential Citizens Medal in early January in part for her work on the House Select Committee.—
Alexx Altman-Devilbiss,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Jan. 2025
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Among her more memorable works on Broadway came in 1997 with the big-budget musical Titanic and the Jackie Kennedy bio-musical Jackie.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
20 Jan. 2025
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One vocation takeaway for Osborn was McLaurin’s eye discipline when catching a football.—
Ben Standig,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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However, Segedin’s father remained unpersuaded of his son’s preference for vocation.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jan. 2025
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With programs like Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and the new Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan, individuals in qualifying professions or financial situations can reduce or eliminate their debt.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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Using her profession and platform for good has been a continuous theme of Beattie’s career.—
Ali Rampling,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Before the Gaza war, Israel already faced widespread criticism over its heavy-handed occupation of Palestinians.—
Greg Myre,
NPR,
16 Jan. 2025
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In the near-cashless realms of Sweden and Norway, some are calling for rethink about electronic payments because of resurgent fears about Russian invasion either through physical occupation of territory or via a cyber assault and suggesting that citizens need to keep cash at home.—
David G.W. Birch,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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In addition, lingering questions about the value of postsecondary education, a greater number of nontraditional options for advanced education, and a continuing shift away from college degrees as an employment requirement all mean more downward pressures will be exerted on postsecondary enrollment.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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The more detailed the profile, the higher the chance of identity theft and potential discrimination in employment and insurance.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Pay: If a remote worker has to relocate to an area with a higher cost of living — such as Washington, DC — their locality pay would have to be adjusted.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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The cost of living — the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers, all items — has continued to outpace median household income in real terms (taking inflation into account), as the graph from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis below shows.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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An artists’ livelihood lost to flames That same pungent, chemical smell had choked the air just a few miles away as the fire kept racing before dawn on January 8 through west Altadena, sending embers zipping through the air like bullets.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2025
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Los Angeles’ leading art institutions, including the J. Paul Getty Trust, LACMA, and the Hammer Museum, have launched a $12 million emergency fund to aid artists and cultural workers who have lost their homes, studios, or livelihoods to the wildfires still ravaging California.—
Tessa Solomon for ARTnews,
Robb Report,
17 Jan. 2025
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In the control room, 25 engineers reviewed live data during the mission.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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Blue Origin is currently targeting Tuesday, Jan. 28, for its first New Shepard mission of the year.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Lifework.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifework. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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