life signs
Americanplural noun
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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
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
Even if they don't find life signs on K2-18b, the team has 10 more Goldilocks planets on their list to study and possibly many more after that.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2023
Because it's still the same face technically with some life signs on it.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2022
This period of a life shows usually the natural bent of the character, and we have found in these fourteen years of Lincoln's life signs of the qualities of greatness which distinguished him.
From McClure's Magazine December, 1895 by Tarbell, Ida M.
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