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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a wasted life" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a life that has not been lived to its fullest potential or has been squandered in some way. Example: "He often reflected on his choices and felt that he had led a wasted life, filled with missed opportunities and regrets."
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"A wasted life, really".
It's been a wasted life.
A blackly humorous portrait of a wasted life.
"And the human cost has been a wasted life".
Like most people awaiting kidney transplants, he was young and it felt such a wasted life".
But two decades later, in his volume of reminiscences, he observed, "Farouk's was a wasted life".
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What followed is ultimately a story of wasted life and talent.
Why did a lengthy lament by a banker about his wasted life go viral online?
But the page displays a sort of poem about the wasted life of a young girl.
Zadie Smith's English translation of Giuseppe Pontiggia's "Incontrarsi", a shimmering narrative of wasted life, is wonderfully supple.
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