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actuary

[ak-choo-er-ee] / ˈæk tʃuˌɛr i /


NOUN
auditor
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Karen Glenn, Social Security’s chief actuary, has said there are more than 140 different options on the Social Security Administration’s website to address the pending insolvency.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

“We just want to make sure the companies have enough money to pay claims,” said Fred Andersen, Minnesota’s chief life actuary, who is leading the initiative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

She made good grades in her business classes and dreamed of becoming an actuary.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025

In 2022, California workers stayed on unemployment aid for an average of 18.1 weeks, compared with 14.5 weeks nationally, according to a study by the Department of Labor’s former lead actuary, Robert Pavosevich.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

His letters to Mr. H. P. Smith, for many years actuary of the Eagle Insurance Office, are a combination of business and friendship.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth

That would guarantee the system’s solvency into the 2060s, the actuaries calculated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

This year it’s 4.42%, the biggest one-year jump in recent memory, driven mostly by Americans having fewer children than the actuaries assumed.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

But even if the projections had been accurate, the actuaries and policymakers in the early 1980s knew that more tax increases or benefit cuts would be needed down the road.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

It’s the same tool that insurance actuaries use to calculate life expectancy, adapted to estimate how long a typical player might expect to play in the WNBA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

In taking a fire risk, the companies base their estimates on tables as carefully worked out and from experiences quite as well studied as those of the actuaries of life companies.

From Business Hints for Men and Women by Alfred Rochefort Calhoun




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