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Living It Up

Living It Up is a 1954 Paramount musical comedy starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Janet Leigh, directed by Norman Taurog; a remake of Nothing Sacred via the Broadway musical Hazel Flagg, about a faked radiation-poisoning death and a free trip to New York.

Living lab

A living lab is a user-centered open innovation ecosystem where companies, agencies, universities, and users co-create and test innovations in real-life settings, a concept that emerged around 2000.

Living mulch

A living mulch is a low-growing cover crop planted before or with a main crop and kept alive all season, suppressing weeds while protecting the soil.

Living Next Door to Alice

Living Next Door to Alice: Chinn/Chapman pop song, originally by New World (1972), a 1976 international hit for Smokie (UK #5, US #25), later famous for the 1995 "Who the Fk Is Alice?" parodies.

Living off the land

Living off the land (LOTL) is a cyberattack technique in which adversaries use legitimate system tools and administrative utilities already installed, making malicious activity evade signature-based detection.

Living pharmacy

A living pharmacy is an implantable or ingestible system in which engineered living cells sense conditions in the body and produce therapeutic molecules, replacing repeated external drug doses.

Living Plant Museum

Living plant museum: term for botanical gardens, arboreta, and conservatories displaying curated living plant collections; examples include the U.S. Botanic Garden (est. 1820), UCR Botanic Gardens, Nepal's National Botanical Garden, and Chulalongkorn University's Living Plant Museum.

Living polymerization

Living polymerization is a chain-growth polymerization in which chain transfer and termination are absent, so growing chains stay active, coined by Michael Szwarc in 1956.

Living room

The living room, also called the sitting room or front room, is the room in a residence for relaxation and socializing, which largely replaced the formal parlor in the twentieth century.

Living root bridges

Living root bridges (Khasi: Jingkieng Jri) are footbridges grown over decades from the aerial roots of rubber fig trees by indigenous Khasi and Jaintia communities in Meghalaya, northeastern India.

Living Sacrifice

Living Sacrifice is a Christian death metal band from Little Rock, Arkansas, formed in 1989 by D.J. Johnson, Lance Garvin, and Bruce Fitzhugh; known for Slayer-style thrash, death metal albums Nonexistent and Inhabit, and the metalcore pioneer Reborn.

Living shoreline

A living shoreline is a shoreline stabilization method using natural materials such as plants, sand, or rock, often with oyster reefs or sills, to control erosion along bays and estuaries.

Living shorelines

A living shoreline is a shoreline stabilization practice that controls erosion with native marsh vegetation, sand, and oyster reefs instead of hard bulkheads and seawalls.

Living Single

Living Single is an American sitcom created by Yvette Lee Bowser that ran on Fox for five seasons from 1993 to 1998, following six Black friends in Brooklyn.

Living skeleton

Living skeleton: billing for extremely thin sideshow and circus performers, from Claude Seurat in the 1820s to Isaac W. Sprague, Artie Atherton, and Peter Robinson of Freaks (1932); distinct from hunger artists, declined in the early twentieth century.

Living Standards Measurement Study

The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is a World Bank household survey program established in 1980 to improve the quality of household data collected in developing countries for policymaking.

Living supramolecular polymerization

Living supramolecular polymerization (LSP) is a chain-growth form of self-assembly without termination, controlling fiber or sheet length by monomer-to-seed ratio and enabling supramolecular block copolymers.

Living systematic review

A living systematic review (LSR) is a systematic review continually updated as new evidence becomes available, keeping its conclusions current instead of aging between updates.

Living the Land

Living the Land (生息之地) is a 2025 Chinese rural family drama written and directed by Huo Meng, about a ten-year-old boy left with his uncle in 1991 Henan.

Living Things (Linkin Park album)

Living Things is Linkin Park's fifth studio album, released 26 June 2012 on Warner Bros., produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda; 12 tracks, 36:59, singles "Burn It Down", "Lost In The Echo", "Powerless", "Castle Of Glass"; Metascore 60.

Living Tribunal

The Living Tribunal is a Marvel Comics cosmic entity that judges and guards the Multiverse, second only to the One Above All, first appearing in Strange Tales #157 in 1967.

Living TV Group

Living TV Group was the British television company formed when Sky bought Virgin Media Television in July 2010 for £160 million, operating Living, Bravo, Challenge, and Virgin1 channels; formerly Flextech, dissolved 2014.

Living wage

A living wage is the wage a full-time worker needs to afford a decent standard of living for themselves and their family, unlike the legally required minimum wage.

Living with the Jacksons

Living with the Jacksons: announced 2014 Reelz reality series about Alejandra Jackson, ex-wife of Jermaine Jackson, and her five children after leaving the Jackson estate; later listed as a 2015 Starz documentary.

Living with Yourself

Living with Yourself is a 2019 Netflix comedy-drama, 8 episodes, created by Timothy Greenberg, directed by Dayton and Faris, starring Paul Rudd in a dual role as Miles Elliot and his clone Miles 2.0, with Aisling Bea; ended after one season.

Livingston (musician)

Livingston (Drake Jon Livingston, Jr., born 2002, Denton, Texas) is an American alt-pop singer-songwriter, formerly of Elektra, whose debut album A Hometown Odyssey topped the Billboard Heatseekers chart in 2024.

Livingston County, Michigan, United States

Livingston County, Michigan, a Southeast Michigan county formed in 1833 from Shiawassee and Washtenaw Counties and named for Edward Livingston; county seat Howell; 193,866 residents in 2020, tenth most populous in Michigan, a fast-growing commuter county at I-96 and US-23.

Livingston F.C.

Livingston F.C., Scottish football club in West Lothian, formerly Ferranti Thistle and Meadowbank Thistle, relocated from Edinburgh in 1995; 2004 League Cup winners, twice relegated via administration, relegated from the Premiership in 2026.

Livingston Island (landform)

Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; second largest island of the archipelago, 798 km2, first land discovered south of 60°S (William Smith, 1819); ice cap, Tangra Mountains, Mount Friesland.

Livingston Parish

Livingston Parish, Louisiana: a Florida Parishes parish created February 10, 1832 from St. Helena Parish, seat at Livingston, population 142,282 (2020), one of the state's fastest-growing parishes.