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mortality

[mawr-tal-i-tee] / mɔrˈtæl ɪ ti /




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Facing mortality, she is struck by a feeling of indiscriminate nostalgia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The World Health Organization has set an ambitious target to halve snakebite mortality and disability by 2030.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Brosnan's Conrad is impulsive yet vulnerable, confronting his own mortality after receiving a brain condition diagnosis.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

It goes on to say the government's taskforce must "grasp the nettle" by tackling these strategic issues, including significantly worse outcomes in deprived communities and raised maternity mortality rates for Black and Asian women.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Each day he faced was another dangerous mission against mortality.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Poaching and road mortalities are two further threats that need to be addressed to ensure the persistance of leopards in the landscapes.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

As airplanes or boats pass and predators like polar bears appear, the walruses panic and stampede into the water, causing trampling-related mortalities.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

He added that soil contamination is often underreported in Asia but "it is always worrying if multiple mortalities suddenly occur in captive animal populations where this has not happened before".

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024

Gray whales seem to have gone through these more dramatic vacillations, enduring three different periods of major mortalities and bouncing back before the most recent five-year event.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024

Cumulative mortalities of these previously unexposed peoples from Eurasian germs ranged from 50 percent to 100 percent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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