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  • Parents often take vicarious pleasure in the achievements of their children.
    vicarious = experienced through another person
  • I prefer to defy death vicariously.†
  • He has been allotted a vicarious life—a life in which all experiences are at arm's length, all sensations secondhand.  (source)
    vicarious = experiencing life secondhand
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  • It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it. Curly was the victim.  (source)
    vicarious = experienced secondhand (saw the victim rather than being the victim)
  • I'm living vicariously through the two of you, I hope you know.  (source)
    vicariously = in a manner where experience is gained or felt secondhand (through others)
  • All the yellowing paper evidence of that luxurious, ambitious, relentless vanished life, which Miss Violence pored over inch by inch, as if remembering it, smiling with gentle vicarious pleasure.†  (source)
  • "But sometimes," he said, "I can't help but think that you live vicariously through his antics, and I must say that it hurts me."  (source)
    vicariously = experiencing life secondhand
  • Whenever I fidgeted or complained, she reminded me that she didn't have any memories of being human, and asked me not to ruin her vicarious fun.†  (source)
  • At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain — as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.  (source)
    vicariously = experienced through another person
  • I felt a vicarious delight just being near the excitement.†  (source)
  • We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously.†  (source)
  • Winter-bourne mixes voyeurism, vicarious thrills, and stiff-necked disapproval, all of which culminate when he finds her with a (male) friend at the Colosseum and chooses to ignore her.†  (source)
  • I'm at the point where the things on your to-do list get transferred to a should-have-done list, and one reason I write a column is for the privilege of vicariously sampling other worlds, dropping in with my passport, my notebook and my curiosity.†  (source)
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