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life-and-death

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. life-and-death, life-or-deathadjective

    vitally important

    "a life-and-death struggle"

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  1. life-and-death

    Life-and-death refers to a situation, decision, issue or circumstance that is extremely serious or crucial, where failure to make the right decision or action can lead to severe consequences including the possibility of someone's death. It denotes a matter of utmost importance where the stakes are very high.

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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. Buddha:

    Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

  2. James Dean:

    If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

  3. Denis Pereira Gray:

    Patients have long known that it matters which doctor they see and how well they can communicate with them, until now, arranging for patients to see the doctor of their choice has been considered a matter of convenience or courtesy ; now, it is clear it is about the quality of medical practice and is literally' a matter of life and death.'.

  4. Amanda Eller:

    The last 17 days of my life have been the toughest days of my life, its been a really significant spiritual journey that I was guided on, and there were times of total fear and loss and wanting to give up and it did come back to life and death and I had to choose, and I chose life. I wasnt gonna take the easy way out.

  5. Dejan Stojanovic:

    In greatness, life and death merge.


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