Synonyms for life-and-death
life-and-death

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1. life-and-death, life-or-deathadjective

   vitally important

   "a life-and-death struggle"

   Synonyms:
   life-or-death

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial

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1. Helen Levy:

   For these folks, health insurance really matters, they’re the ones who tend to get sick, and they have a nest egg to protect. It really is a matter of life and death.

2. Jason Boyd:

   On account of mail delays and other factors, many of these children have been left with approximately three weeks to submit applications with potentially life and death consequences.

3. New York:

   It's a matter of life and death also and we can't afford not to commit ourselves 100 % to this effort and spend what we need to spend.

4. James Dean:

   If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

5. Whitney Bowe:

   [ Melanoma ] is a very time-sensitive diagnosis — every single day that passes by counts. So if an app tells you ‘ Hey you don’t need to worry about that mole,' and yet it’s actually an evolving melanoma, that can mean the difference between life and death.