life signs
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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In Jonathan Miles’s “Eradication: A Fable,” a schoolteacher who has never held a gun in his life signs up to cull 3,000 invasive goats on a remote island.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
The system also has a bright star which will make it easier to look for life signs in the planets' atmospheres.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2023
Many are optimistic of detecting life signs on a faraway world within our lifetimes - possibly in the next few years.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2023
Because it's still the same face technically with some life signs on it.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2022
Their father's life signs were very, very weak, fluttering on the edge of death.
From Underground by Dreyfus, Suelette
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