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He always strived to live up to the family name and enjoyed the reputation he inherited and maintained.
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Looking for fun is one thing, but when it becomes a covetous obsession, how can any wedding possibly live up to those glossy, photoshopped expectations?
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They can live up to six years, although fish older than four are rare.
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The sides also fail to live up to the beautifully browned and crisp-skinned honey-glazed Cornish hen.
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The pressure of such comparisons caused criticisms when he did not live up to them.
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This toad may live up to 15 years.
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Elephants can live up to 70 years in the wild.
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The area struggles to live up to this positive idea in the present day as there is a significant short term, transient, population.
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He did not live up to his circuit form and was seventh place in the long race, behind four of his compatriots.
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And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said for those first notices.
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