fact of life
Example Sentences
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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
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