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fact of life



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It is a damnable fact of life that great propaganda works even when you know it’s propaganda.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

He lives in a "hacker-house", a shared living and workspace, where he and his colleagues continually swap ideas, and believes working long hours is just a fact of life.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

With the ongoing shutdown of the federal government, travelers are starting to find that flight delays and cancellations are becoming a fact of life.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 8, 2025

To most people, the nation’s vaccine system feels like a solid, reliable fact of life, doling out shots to children like clockwork.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

To him, slavery, in all its harsh brutality, was a fact of life.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis