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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
life of its own en · NOUN
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(idiomatic) An independent existence with some characteristics of life, such as dynamism.
Sartre rejects the notion that an imagined character possesses, in any rational sense, "a life of its own".
1996, George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism, page 181:[…], information takes on not only a speed of its own, but a life of its own.
2002, John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Information, page 18:take on a life of its own
A massive hangover with a life of its own kept Fess pinned to his bed most of Sunday.
2003, Kristin Hunter Lattany, The Lakestown Rebellion, page 185:
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