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Discover LudwigThe phrase "in lives" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate a lasting or ongoing effect, or when something persists throughout someone's life. For example, "This practice has endured in lives for centuries."
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In Lives of the Artists Calvin Tomkins profiles 10 living artists.
Gangs make a fortune trading in lives.
THE most dreadful cost of AIDS is in lives lost.
"Power makes that sort of situation in lives".
There will be a cost in lives, too.
Last June, he told me, "I'm interested in lives.
The cost — in lives and yen — is as yet unknown.
So Stalin, at an enormous cost in lives, liberated Berlin.
Meanwhile, the toll in lives and treasure mounts.
Progress has come at a heavy cost in lives.
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My fellow jurors and I lead plugged-in lives.
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