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Life saver

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6545298
Source-derived summary

Life saver may refer to:

Life saving

A person who participates in lifesaving

Lifebuoy, a buoy designed to be thrown to a person in the water to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning

Personal flotation device, a piece of equipment worn to keep the wearer afloat

Music

Songs

"Life Saver", by Chicago from their album Chicago VII

"Lifesaver" (song), by Emiliana Torrini (2004)

"Lifesaver", from Guru's 1995 album, Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality

"Lifesaver", by Finnish rock band Sunrise Avenue from their album Unholy Ground

Other music

Lifesavas, similarly named hip-hop group from Portland, Oregon

The Lifesaver, a 1974 album by pianist Joe Bonner

Lifesavers Underground, a Christian rock band

Other uses

LifeSaver bottle, used to turn dirty/polluted water into drinking water

Life Savers, a brand of candy

Life Savers (film), a 1916 film starring Oliver Hardy

"Lifesaver (poem)", a 1931 poem by Australian writer Elizabeth Riddell

Life Savers Building, Port Chester, Westchester County, New York, United States

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Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Life saver” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Life, saver and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 1995, 1974, 1916—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Life, saver and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Life saver”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6545298. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1995, 1974 and 1916.

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This entry incorporates text from Life saver” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.