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actuary

[ak-choo-er-ee] / ˈæk tʃuˌɛr i /


NOUN
auditor
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Alan had worked as a landscape gardener before launching a training and life-coaching business, while Katie was an actuary, or risk assessor, for a financial firm.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

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

Knowing that he’s a senior partner at an actuary firm and has an analytical mind, I was eager to hear his strategy for airline frequent-flyer status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025

Appointed in 1862 actuary to the United States sanitary commission, he issued in 1869 an important volume of Military and Anthropological Statistics.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Social Security’s actuaries calculated that Larson’s bill would ensure the program’s solvency for at least 75 years, but in practical terms into the almost limitless future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Insurers and actuaries expect enrollment will fall even more over the course of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Importantly, actuaries have assessed that because everyone contributes and there is a cap on lifetime benefits, the long-term-care fund is financially sound for the next 75 years.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

The Social Security actuaries project that the costs of Social Security over the next 75 years average 6.1% of GDP and revenues of 4.8%, leaving a deficit of 1.3% of GDP.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

No answer was given, no such proof offered; all our clever actuaries were silent.

From Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell




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