real-life
[ree-uh l-lahyf, reel-]
- existing or happening in reality: real-life drama.
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Origin of real-life
First recorded in 1830–40
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Contemporary Examples
The Real-Life ‘Downton’ Millionairesses Who Changed BritainBy Tim Teeman Lady Grantham of ‘Downton Abbey’ is far from an anomaly.
But burning, rioting, and looting are disgraceful—and they make for real-life victims we somehow never hear about.
The renowned theoretical physicist has for years been a proponent of real-life, NASA-led interstellar travel.
Meet Kip Thorne, the Man Who Crafted the Artful Science of ‘Interstellar’Asawin Suebsaeng
November 14, 2014
The real-life reporting wound up informing the plot of the novel and some of the characters.
How The Cold War Endgame Played Out In The Rubble Of The Berlin WallWilliam O’Connor
November 9, 2014
That Tarantino never opened a real-life Big Kahuna Burger out in L.A. seems like a huge missed opportunity.
The Secrets of ‘Pulp Fiction’: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About the Movie on Its 20th AnniversaryMarlow Stern
October 19, 2014
Historical Examples
But Hollywood has created one real-life horror that tops all creations of fantasy—the child star.
Jimsy and the MonstersWalt Sheldon
The fictitious sufferings of "Thaddeus of Warsaw," are transcended in real-life misery every day, and by natures quite as noble.
Pencillings by the WayN. Parker Willis
In both models, corresponding to real-life situations, language is constituted as part of the experience.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
But she was so tired that none of the real-life things, in which usually she revelled, were worth living for.
Buff: A Collie and other dog-storiesAlbert Payson Terhune
He would never develop into such a contender; nor does one real-life fighter in fifty.
Buff: A Collie and other dog-storiesAlbert Payson Terhune