lifelong

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Being adopted by a white family, only to be shunned by the Native community, perpetuated his lifelong feeling of being an outsider.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

But for many lifelong Knicks fans the disruption was justified, as Thursday's parade marked an emotional culmination of years of following the team.

From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026

Social-insurance programs guarantee lifelong income for all Americans, particularly low-wage workers, provide protection for disabled workers and their surviving family, and spread potentially catastrophic healthcare risk across the population.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

"This was not only a destruction of life, this has become a lifelong devastation of a family."

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

Though he had not sought out the impending duel with Burr, there was nothing in Hamilton’s lifelong pattern that would permit a self-consciously bland and supremely triumphant refusal of the challenge.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis