expectancies
- plural of expectancy.
Example Sentences
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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
So life expectancies are rising again, that’s good news.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 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
