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live-out

[ liv-out ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

live out

/ lɪv /

intr, adverb (of an employee, as in a hospital or hotel) to dwell away from one's place of employment

First recorded in 1965–70; by analogy with live-in

Not about encouraging aspiring butchers to live out their violent fantasies in Syria.

As they now live out their wildest dreams, their barbarity has cost the U.S. far more.

Part of that bourgeois dream involved white people getting to live out their fantasies of having black servants.

Soth refers to Silicon Valley as a nerdy Hollywood, in that people go there to live out their dreams.

A sea sanctuary is also a way for previously captive killer whales to live out their lives in a dignified, sustainable manner.

With big, rangy Sam Welborn, David started out to become a rancher and live out his days in peace and quiet.

It takes strength of mind for a man to decide to live out his destiny rather than run away from life.

Time enough if I live out my Oxford year, and have really mastered the matter pretty well.

She herself went there to live out her days, and died there on August 31st, 1833, at the age of eighty-two.

So closely is the scriptural warning fulfilled, that "bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days."

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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