What does life of its own mean?

life of its own

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.41 in modern English

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"take on a life of its own"
"Sartre rejects the notion that an imagined character possesses, in any rational sense, "a life of its own"."
"[…], information takes on not only a speed of its own, but a life of its own."
"A massive hangover with a life of its own kept Fess pinned to his bed most of Sunday."

a life of its own (canonical) lives of their own (plural)

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