survivorship
Americannoun
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the state of being a survivor.
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Law. a right of a person to property on the death of another having a joint interest: in the case of more than two joint tenants, the property passes to successive survivors.
Etymology
Origin of survivorship
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The team also included delisted stocks to avoid a common issue in backtesting known as survivorship bias, where performance is overstated by including only stocks that are currently active.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
With joint tenancy with the rights of survivorship, you own 100% of your home together, and he could not sell to a third party.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
The researchers propose that rising NDRG1 levels reflect what they call a "cellular survivorship bias."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
Even if one Social Security benefit goes away after death, people with survivorship pensions and required minimum distributions on other retirement accounts can find themselves in a higher tax bracket, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026
According to the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of New York City, civilization largely interferes with the laws of evolution, by survivorship and by encouraging the waste which arises from it.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace
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