facts of life
Example Sentences
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Sooner or later, those feelings — and the economic facts of life — may catch up with the president.
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2025
After hearing the late CBS basketball commentator Billy Packer admonish college coaches to recognize the hot hand phenomenon, a friend of mine sent him my textbook summary of Gilovich’s team’s facts of life.
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m not sure these qualify as the most basic facts of life.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023
We lived on Lake Eloise across from Cypress Gardens so, of course, we skied until we dropped, hopefully well clear of the gators and water moccasins that were facts of life in still-wild Central Florida.
From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022
There are neural centers for generating, spontaneously, numberless hypotheses about the facts of life.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
