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Rule "live vs life"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description:	live vs life
Message:	Did you mean <suggestion>lives</suggestion> (plural of 'life'), <suggestion>life</suggestion> or <suggestion>love</suggestion>?
Category:	Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	A million people lost their live during the war. Correction suggestion: lives, life, love
Correct sentences for comparison:	Her parents let her live in a small room called tunpu annexed to the southern wall of her house. The Japanese live on rice. They were eventually released in the 1980s as the Live in Boston album.
ID:	LIVE_LIFE [2]
Version:	6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-30 22:33:07 +0100)

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