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Recent Examples of lifer
Many of these players are lifers, kids who started at Kent Denver in middle school, with a few, like Fay, who had Schayes as their sixth-grade English teacher.
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Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
This is for all the indie film lifers who are holding on and fighting the good fight.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 Feb. 2025
The Terps, assembled by this peppery 49-year-old basketball lifer, had not played so well so deep into March for almost a decade.
—Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2025
One of head coach Sean Payton’s lifers won’t be back with the Broncos in 2025.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2025
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Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
This is for all the indie film lifers who are holding on and fighting the good fight.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 Feb. 2025
The Terps, assembled by this peppery 49-year-old basketball lifer, had not played so well so deep into March for almost a decade.
—Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2025
One of head coach Sean Payton’s lifers won’t be back with the Broncos in 2025.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifer
Noun
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Full goggles: Night vision goggles mix some of the pros and cons of monoculars and binoculars.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2025
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Further research is needed to compare the pros and cons of top-dressing tomato plants with coffee grounds.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
4 June 2025
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But the past couple of years have seen the team replace veterans with younger alternatives who offer greater positional versatility.—
Jeff Rueter,
New York Times,
8 June 2025
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Twenty-two a day has been a call-to-action statistic, although the most recent data from the 2024 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report (using 2022 numbers) puts it at 17.6 veterans committing suicide per day, which is significantly higher than among non-veteran adults.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
Noun
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The 56-year-old convict, who stands 6 feet tall and weighs nearly 260 pounds, had been imprisoned nearly eight years.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
26 May 2025
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As an escaped convict posing as a beloved preacher, and as his gentle, upright twin, Robeson embodies a devastating split between appearance and truth, and whose uncanny doubling plays out in a community shaped by racial violence, spiritual deception, and economic precarity.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
Noun
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Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants but has said that women and children make up most of the dead.—
Yesica Fisch,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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Israel's military campaign has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's health ministry, which doesn't distinguish between civilians and combatants.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 June 2025
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Her jumpsuit is a couture twist on the cartoonish striped getup of a jailbird.—
Jemal Polson,
CNN Money,
8 May 2025
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Becomes a jailbird at a high-security zoo after he’s caught, with the newest Wallace & Gromit film, Vengeance Most Fowl, finding Feathers, all these years later, hell-bent on getting even with the duo who locked him up.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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There will be one classical warhorse, one nearly-new title and one Broadway-style show.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
2 June 2025
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Cisco Systems The old tech warhorse, still crucial to many tech systems, will report Wednesday after the bell.—
Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
13 May 2025
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The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
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Neither side disclosed the exact number of prisoners released so far, citing security concerns.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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The latest list of inmates subject to detainers released by Corrections to the Miami Herald at the start of 2025 showed about 8,000 inmates had been subject to the ICE detention requests since 2017, and about 5,400 people had been released to federal immigration authorities.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2025
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His efforts aimed to reduce recidivism rates and promote policies that support the successful reentry of former inmates into society.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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“Lifer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifer. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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