expectancy

Life expectancy can be extended through a lung transplant, but even then the fatal disease will continue to progress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

A third reason for tempering our enthusiasm about the data is that U.S. life expectancy remains far below that of other high-income countries.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

There are several types of the condition, and it affects everyone differently, with life expectancy varying from person to person.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The average life expectancy is 79 as of 2024, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

She comes to me and Captain Smith and gives us that same look of expectancy I’ve been seeing all evening.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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

“The new ‘magic number’ reflects a convergence of factors — from persistent inflation and longer life expectancies, to uncertainty about the future of Social Security,” said John Roberts, chief field officer at Northwestern Mutual.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 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

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