life savings
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Additionally, she suffered injuries from a car crash at age 14, prompting her parents to spend their life savings on plastic surgery as part of her recovery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Her life savings are tied up in a two-storey house in the planned development area, surrounded by ornamental and fruit trees.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Sam Little, 35 from Yarm, near Middlesborough, has revealed he was scammed out of £40,000 life savings, an experience he describes as "gut-wrenching".
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
“It isn’t like I blew all of my life savings last year,” Matheson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
When she looked, the rest of her life savings and her skeleton keys were gone.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
