Example Sentences

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Young people typically qualify for lower-cost coverage than their parents due to their longer life expectancies.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 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

The right to an assisted death will be granted to people with life expectancies of six months or less provided their request is approved by two doctors and a judge.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

Globally and domestically, continued high birth rates have stayed tied to religiosity, poverty, higher infant mortality rates, shorter life expectancies, lack of economic opportunity, and low rates of education and basic rights for women.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2024

He used these to calculate life expectancies for each age group, and to estimate the population of London, which he concluded was 460,000—not, as had been claimed, 7 million or so.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton