"past life" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "past lives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "past lives"
      },
      "expansion": "past life (plural past lives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She claims to have been Cleopatra and Marie Antoinette in past lives."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A previously lived life in a different body, according to theories of reincarnation."
      ],
      "id": "en-past_life-en-noun-SYeGpisH",
      "links": [
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "reincarnation",
          "reincarnation"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I was a computer programmer in a past life, but now I raise pigs and chickens."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A former period of one's life."
      ],
      "id": "en-past_life-en-noun-txWManAr",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A former period of one's life."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "past life"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "past lives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "past lives"
      },
      "expansion": "past life (plural past lives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She claims to have been Cleopatra and Marie Antoinette in past lives."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A previously lived life in a different body, according to theories of reincarnation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "reincarnation",
          "reincarnation"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I was a computer programmer in a past life, but now I raise pigs and chickens."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A former period of one's life."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A former period of one's life."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "past life"
}