lifetime
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A legend in her lifetime, and now beyond.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In 2023, the American Library Assn. awarded the singer-songwriter, book lady and philanthropist its highest honor — lifetime membership — to recognize her lasting impact on literacy and inspiring a love of reading in children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
“I’m probably on the cusp” of being a lifetime renter, Salviati said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
A retired commercial shrimper and oil field worker whose wife drives a school bus, Miller fears having to leave his lifetime home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
We wait for approximately a year before the nurse calls us back to the consultation room, and for about a lifetime before a short woman in a big sweater dress appears through the door.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Researchers say amphibians provide a window into the past because they don’t travel far during their lifetimes and are sensitive to climate change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
With only a handful of lyrics, she revisits a million lifetimes replete with monumental change and insights only an artist of her caliber could convey.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Perhaps the most surprising discovery was identifying what now limits magnon lifetimes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
Labor’s share of income, which is about 60% now, will almost definitely go below 50% in our lifetimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Hundreds of years...and lifetimes and lifetimes of folklore and mythology lessons, will be deep in my mind by the time we arrive on Sagan.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
