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live

[liv] / lɪv /








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They have no plans to move — mostly because they could not afford to live anywhere else.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Both matches will be available to watch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, with live text and radio commentary on BBC Sounds, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sport website and app.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

And as we no longer need to live near our jobs, we can move somewhere cheaper — maybe much cheaper.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

“Working for someone younger than me and having to live life one PowerPoint slide at a time was torture,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

“Cities like Washington and Baltimore, a lot of people live in apartments. It’s major that we can eliminate them from consideration.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

The researchers believe DT-109 may have uses beyond treating fatty liver disease.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

Cambridge, Mass.-based Beam Therapeutics developed an experimental treatment for a rare inherited disease that damages the lungs and liver, dosing its first patient in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

That's due to the energy needed by the stomach, intestines and liver to break down and absorb these complex molecules.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

In rare diseases, Lopes-Fernandes said Ipsen is trying to widen its portfolio beyond liver drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

Father Nicanor, with his liver enlarged and tight as a drum, gave him his blessing from bed.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But Cult is assaying the livest of stories.

From Time Sep. 5, 2017

"I'm the livest, kickingest person you ever saw," he fumed.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'm the livest, kickingest person you ever saw.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was just about the livest and jumpin'est opera yet turned out by a young composer in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thank Heaven, thou livest still, mother of mercy!

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

I was covering Phoenix-based US Airways when he landed Flight 1549 on the river in early 2009, saving 155 lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Likho, who lives at the shop full-time, acclimated within a day.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

"It's like their lives didn't even matter. We're just really appalled by it all," her mother Michelle Jones told the ABC.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

They hope to live active lives into their 90s and want to spend freely on hosting family and friends.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

The main character is a middle-aged man who lives in middle-of-nowhere Missouri, where Dad and Aunt Jen grew up.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Joanne Hsu, the director of the Michigan survey, said the index’s gains could prove short lived if gasoline stays expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

“Trey,” was an Atlanta resident who also lived in Ontario and South L.A., prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Their chemical composition allows scientists to estimate how much oxygen was present in the water when they lived.

From Science Daily Jul. 16, 2026

He lived in Stretford, Greater Manchester, before he died in a care home on 30 October 2020, having been left bed-bound by his dementia.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

He lived entirely alone in a perpetually dying forest.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Yudith Meza spent part of her early adulthood living with her parents in their mobile home in Bell, in one of the parks slated to close.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Our living costs will typically be much lower than when we worked.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

He has spent each month of the past three years living in a different country.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

The finished living plastic had mechanical properties similar to ordinary polycaprolactone films.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

Each prisoner has about twenty square feet of living space.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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