"past life" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "past lives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "past life (plural past lives)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She claims to have been Cleopatra and Marie Antoinette in past lives.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A previously lived life in a different body, according to theories of reincarnation."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "reincarnation",
          "reincarnation"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "82 18",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "zensei, zense",
          "sense": "life lived before reincarnation",
          "word": "前世"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I was a computer programmer in a past life, but now I raise pigs and chickens.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A former period of one's life."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A former period of one's life."
      ],
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        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "past life"
}

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      "form": "past lives",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "text": "She claims to have been Cleopatra and Marie Antoinette in past lives.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A previously lived life in a different body, according to theories of reincarnation."
      ],
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          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body"
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          "reincarnation",
          "reincarnation"
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        "A former period of one's life."
      ],
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        "(informal) A former period of one's life."
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  "translations": [
    {
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      "roman": "zensei, zense",
      "sense": "life lived before reincarnation",
      "word": "前世"
    }
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  "word": "past life"
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