save the life of (someone)

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: to stop (someone) from dying or being killed

a surgical procedure that has saved the lives of thousands of people

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The state’s Department of Corrections has since acquired a new drug, pentobarbital, that can carry out death sentences, and despite the controversy with some activist groups attempting to save the life of death row inmate Joseph Corcoran, the courts and state leaders have failed to intervene. —

Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024 In Missouri, a trigger law banned abortions at all points of pregnancy, except to save the life of the pregnant person. —

Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2024 By then, detectives had already set out to find Bobby Tarr while, 85 miles to the north, surgeons were fighting to try to save the life of Chris Smith — a bullet still lodged in his brain. —

Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2024 The only exception was to save the life of the pregnant person. —

Victoria Chamberlin, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 See all Example Sentences for save the life of (someone)

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