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Recent Examples of lifework
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How an accident led to a career
Pruitt came to his lifework literally by accident.
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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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifework
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At the Langs’ home, a small work shed in the back yard was the lone surviving structure.—
Oren Peleg,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Pressure from new year’s resolutions, high stress, low productivity during winter, plus waiting for your next payday and needing to appear energized at work all culminate in building up Blue Monday’s bold claim.—
Alyssa Jaffer,
Forbes,
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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However, as Margulis tells Haaretz’s Ruth Schuster, the site’s first human occupation may have occurred some 6,000 years ago, during the Chalcolithic era, or the Copper Age.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
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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Critics of the move are concerned that many employers will see Trump’s action as a signal that no longer have to worry about facing penalties from discriminating in their employment practices.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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Democrats, unions and liberal groups criticized him for his remarks against workplace protections such as the minimum wage and overtime rules, and conservative publications seized on Mr. Puzder’s employment of an undocumented immigrant as his housekeeper.—
Chris Cameron,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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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 courtyard was essential, a way for mostly Jewish immigrants to replace the tenement’s narrow, stinking air shaft with a form of genuinely gracious living.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
23 Jan. 2025
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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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The indigenous technology, crucial for satellite servicing, space station operations, and interplanetary missions, positions India to play a significant role in the commercial and exploratory frontiers of space.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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But finally, seconds into the mission, New Glenn began to climb.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Lifework.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifework. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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