social life

noun

: the part of a person's time spent doing enjoyable things with others
I joined the club to improve my social life.
She has a busy/hectic social life. It seems like there's a party every week.

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The discomfort often has less to do with craving a drink and more to do with how deeply drinking is woven into adult social life. — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Aug. 2026 Psychologist Katie Witkiewitz suggests moving some of your social life toward activities that demand your attention rather than settings where drinking is the main event, per the APA. — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026 Such security precautions are not conducive to an active social life. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026 Those ideas say some people are superior to others, and the inequality that exists in the world around us reflects those innate differences, and inequality is a good thing, and a necessary thing, and the only real way to organize social life. — John Blake, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for social life

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“Social life.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20life. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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