mortality

Example Sentences

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As Sam Sacks writes of this posthumously published collection of short stories, “Segal never loses her equipoise, or her sense of humor, in these most extreme confrontations with mortality.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Apparently, the bear had experienced a tough mortality.

From Literature

That’s because of so-called mortality credits — which is another way of saying that if you live for 50 years, your future income will be paid out by all those who bought policies and died early.

From MarketWatch

Loss of the Y chromosome has been tied to worse outcomes from COVID, which may help explain why men have higher mortality rates.

From Science Daily

He said becoming aware of his own mortality "brought everything into focus".

From BBC