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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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Bacon will partake in a career retrospective, looking back at his works from Footloose to the upcoming Amazon series The Bondsman.—
Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Feb. 2025
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On Inauguration Day, Trump signed an executive order calling on federal agency heads to mandate in-office work.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Urbano believes there’s a greater purpose at work in her life, and in her vocation.—
Paul Eisenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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Her ambivalence toward her vocation runs throughout her memoir, which interrogates and sometimes rebuts the dogmas that inevitably hardened around such famed artists.—
Claudia La Rocco,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Davis was named a Tarrant County Legal Legend in October in recognition of his significant contributions to the profession and the community.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Feb. 2025
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It can now be considered among Presti’s more impactful master strokes, considering Daigneault’s decade-long rise to the top of the profession.—
Anthony Slater,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
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The Ukrainian president also said that less than 20 percent of Kyiv's mineral resources, including approximately half of its rare earth deposits, were currently in areas under Russian occupation.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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For an oblate, prayer was an occupation, both a way to fill the day and a mystical way of healing the world.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Federal civilian employment is not a major factor in federal spending and deficits.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
16 Feb. 2025
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With Juan Soto no longer under their employment, Stanton’s health and continued production are of the utmost importance to a lineup that is also banking on a few other former MVPs.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The cost of living is too high in the United States of America.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Feb. 2025
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Steiger suggests the fact that duvet covers can be stored more compactly than comforters might be contributing to their popularity in urban areas, where smaller living spaces often mean less storage area.—
Amy Panos,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And their agenda is a direct threat to and rapid assault on the rights, freedoms, livelihoods, and futures of the American people.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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That funding prevents development on sensitive natural environments like rainforests by paying nearby residents to seek livelihoods other than the logging and grazing that could unleash massive emissions from the carbon stored in the forests.—
Jake Bittle,
WIRED,
8 Feb. 2025
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SpaceX has been responsible for all by one of the missions flown from either Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral so far this year.—
Richard Tribou,
Orlando Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2025
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been aloft for 35 years and is still at work—thanks in part to the five servicing missions astronauts made to the telescope before the space shuttles were retired in 2011.—
Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Lifework.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifework. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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