Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Involving or ending in life or death.
- adjective Vitally important.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting a matter of life or death; critical; desperate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective vitally important
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Examples
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Some expressions of Romanticism were of such stress-inducing, life-and-death intensity that they led followers to be diagnosed with clusters of symptoms named after the artworks that caused them.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In the 1930s, when the Depression made competition over jobs and housing a life-and-death contest, many Italian Americans began to heed the calls to distance themselves from “bad” Americans.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Some expressions of Romanticism were of such stress-inducing, life-and-death intensity that they led followers to be diagnosed with clusters of symptoms named after the artworks that caused them.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The refusal of the Court to recognize new constitutional rights on life-and-death issues is also apparent in other contexts where vulnerable individuals were denied essential constitutional protection.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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It was great to see government and business leaders pounding fists over real life-and-death issues that affect millions of too-often-unheard women and children at the bottom of the economic scale.
Jasmine Whitbread: Will Inequality Finally Top the Agenda at Davos? Jasmine Whitbread 2012
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It was great to see government and business leaders pounding fists over real life-and-death issues that affect millions of too-often-unheard women and children at the bottom of the economic scale.
Jasmine Whitbread: Will Inequality Finally Top the Agenda at Davos? Jasmine Whitbread 2012
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"We are in a life-and-death struggle, but not our whole country," he told the crowd.
Lt. Gen. John Kelly, who lost son to war, says U.S. largely unaware of sacrifice 2011
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It was great to see government and business leaders pounding fists over real life-and-death issues that affect millions of too-often-unheard women and children at the bottom of the economic scale.
Jasmine Whitbread: Will Inequality Finally Top the Agenda at Davos? Jasmine Whitbread 2012
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"We are in a life-and-death struggle, but not our whole country," he told the crowd.
Lt. Gen. John Kelly, who lost son to war, says U.S. largely unaware of sacrifice 2011
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It was great to see government and business leaders pounding fists over real life-and-death issues that affect millions of too-often-unheard women and children at the bottom of the economic scale.
Jasmine Whitbread: Will Inequality Finally Top the Agenda at Davos? Jasmine Whitbread 2012
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