to experience a dangerous or unpleasant situation and still be alive after it
All of them wrote because they knew they had lived through a time like no other.
But our parents lived through a real war - far worse than either.
But still... Living through those times changed us.
Hard to imagine what that must be like to live through.
Having lived through both experiences, people go for the Taleban model.
He has lived through one war with China and three with Pakistan.
I have lived through huge visual changes up there.
I was raised by my grandparents; they lived through the war and were all about making and mending things.
It's aimed at people who have lived through a war.
Like anyone who has lived through a war, they had lower expectations of happiness and a stoicism and dignity that were all their own.
Many of the boys had lived through a war and could remember it very clearly.
Only last week, I was forced to live through an experience that made me pine for a proper job.
Perhaps it is the result of their having lived through two world wars.
So we know what it was like to live through the dictatorship when you could hardly make any kind of protest.
That no one else has to live through something like this at a football match again.
That's not controversial to the generation who lived through the war, or to many of their children.
The experiences we live through shape the way we think of the world.
These are people who have lived through two world wars.
These great opponents remind me of the war I lived through where good and evil battled it out and the good guys won.
They chose marriage and lived through change both social and personal, and stuck to it.
This probably refers to white males, many of whom have lived through two world wars and know what life was like decades ago.
Those who lived through the war are dying out.
Those who reached 100 this year have lived through two world wars.
To parents who lived through the war and remember the 1930s, that rarely counted as a risk at all.
We should all hope that future generations do not have to live through similar wars such as those that blighted the first half of the 20th century.
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