lifework
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lifework
Example Sentences
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There followed a long period when silent films were virtually unmarketable, and the lifework of many actors and directors disappeared into warehouses or dissolved into silver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Music was the springboard for Harry Belafonte’s lifework: a career that leveraged cultural recognition toward political goals, and that recognized artistic achievements as both pleasures in themselves and symbols to wield.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Wiener’s lifework and his failure to predict its consequences are intimately bound up in the idea of an impending technological singularity.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2019
Since this has become sort of my lifework over the last two and a half years I have to wake up every morning optimistic.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2019
Now tell me why we have no papers, no printed materials written by this great artist about his lifework?
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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