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
Since January, she has poured nearly all her life savings, roughly $47,000, into the stock market, lured by a global AI boom enriching tech powerhouses in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Did you hear about Long John Turing here? Invested his life savings in silver ingots and buried them in some secret spot.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
