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life and death

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  1. life and death

    Life and death is a fundamental concept in the game of Go.

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  1. Life and death

    Life and death is a fundamental concept in the game of Go, where the status of a distinct group of stones is determined as either being "alive", and may remain on the board indefinitely, or "dead," where the group will be lost as "captured". The basic idea can be summarized by:

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  1. life and death

    Read the full text of the Life and Death poem by Charles Harpur on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of life and death in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of life and death in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of life and death in a Sentence

  1. Isaac Bashevis Singer:

    The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  2. Lual Mayen:

    It was a journey of life and death.

  3. Timothy Clune:

    It is inexplicable that during this pandemic, the Governor would choose not to have ASL interpreters at his daily live televised briefings, as a result, New Yorkers are unable to obtain vital life and death information at the time they need it most.

  4. Bill Richardson:

    Let me be clear -- this is a life and death situation that should be taken with the utmost seriousness by everyone involved, it is my intention to press the Maduro Government to allow an emergency medical evacuation so that Matthew Heath can return to the United States and get the critical care Matthew Heath needs.

  5. Claudiu Ionita:

    The vaccine means the difference between life and death, people should understand that. Maybe in their last hour they should understand that.


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