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expectancy

[ik-spek-tuhn-see] / ɪkˈspɛk tən si /


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Surging yields in recent weeks have distorted other markets, extending the life expectancy of two other popular flavors of debt securities: mortgage bonds and Treasury futures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

When a call is overturned, Baseball Savant measures the difference in run expectancy between the situation before the pitch/challenge and the situation after the call is flipped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The UN agency said healthy life expectancy had recovered from the pandemic more slowly, standing at 62.8 years in 2023 -- 0.4 years below the 2019 level.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ben Daniels, Sarah's husband, gave written evidence and said when Sarah received her results she was told that her condition was terminal and that her life expectancy was 12 months.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

His life expectancy is less than 1 year.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

The higher estimate for 2026, the study notes, reflects concerns about inflation, longer life expectancies and uncertainty surrounding what will happen with Social Security’s funding in 2032.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Although these populations tend to have some of the world's longest life expectancies, they also experience relatively high levels of frailty in old age.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

The aging of the baby boom generation—known as the “silver tsunami”—along with rising life expectancies pointed to years of steady demand and pricing power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

After the Great Depression, life expectancies increased alongside the percentage of older Americans living in poverty — by 1935, 50% of older adults were poor, and by 1940, almost two-thirds were poor.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025

There are said to be a billion billion insects on the earth at any moment, most of them with very short life expectancies by our standards.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas


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