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colloquial , music , postpositive ) live ( made during a performance in front of an audience, and not, as usual, in a recording studio )
The audience were banned from bringing in their own food and water; 300ml cups inside the venue were expensive and hard to get a hold of. Despite the already dangerous heat, pyrotechnics were maintained during Swift’s performance of Bad Blood. “The vision and heat sensation were hellish,” wrote the journalist Marcella Ramos.
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live”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. At least 1,000 people fainted, and video footage of Swift on stage showed the 33-year-old pop star apparently struggling to breathe too.
Brazilian prosecutors are investigating Time For Fun and questions have been raised about the organisers’ apparent failure to adapt the event to the baking weather conditions. Taylor Swift fans cool off as they queue outside the stadium before her concert in Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: Tercio Teixeira/AFP/Getty Images
Origin of live
Dari: زِنْدَگِی کَرْدَن (fa) ( zindagī kardan ), زِنْدَه گِی کَرْدَن ( zinda gī kardan ) Iranian Persian: زِنْدِگی کَرْدَن (fa) ( zendegi kardan ), زیسْتَن (fa) ( zistan ) Classical Persian: زِنْدَگِی کَرْدَن (fa) ( zindagī kardan ) Georgian: პირდაპირი ჩართვა ( ṗirdaṗiri čartva ), პირდაპირი ეთერი ( ṗirdaṗiri eteri ), პირდაპირი მაუწყებლობა ( ṗirdaṗiri mauc̣q̇ebloba ) Cantonese: 住 ( zyu 6 ), 居住 ( geoi 1 zyu 6 ) Dungan: җў ( žw ) Mandarin: 住 (zh) ( zhù ), 居住 (zh) ( jūzhù ) live ( imperative liv, infinitive at live, present tense liver, past tense livede, perfect tense har livet)