a new lease on life

noun phrase

: a chance to continue living or to become successful or popular again

This medicine gives patients a new lease on life.

After the movie was made, the book got a new lease on life.

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The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood The Love of My Afterlife gives new meaning to the trope of second-chance romance with its tale of a woman given a new lease on life. —

Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024 Related article Records broken, QB return to Minnesota ends in heavy defeat, Chiefs’ ‘doink for the division’ kick: NFL Week 14 Sunday review With a new lease on life, the Bengals wasted no time getting into the endzone. —

Kevin Dotson, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024 But the debut of Apple Silicon gave it a new lease on life. —

Chris Welch, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2024 With horror maestro Mike Flanagan at the helm of the subsequent prequel, the spirit board-centric franchise got a new lease on life. —

Megan McCluskey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for a new lease on life

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