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fact of life

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a fact of life
an unpleasant fact or situation which people accept because they cannot change it. She grew up in Northern Ireland during the 1970s when violence had become a fact of life. (not used with the)
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He sought comfort in clinging to the contemplation of the only fact of life that the resolute efforts of mankind had never failed to disguise in the clatter and glamour of phrases.
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life, which can dwarf any and every circumstance, and to which the belt of wampum and the commerce of America are alike.
 
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