life cycle

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The team is focused on what is known as “embodied carbon”—the emissions produced during the entire life cycle of construction, including manufacturing, transporting, installing and disposing of materials.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Their life cycle is complex as they spawn in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean before travelling to Europe.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

"These new findings help us better understand the life cycle of the tectonic plates that shape the Earth."

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

“We just got the dams removed on the Klamath, and now you want to put another destructive life cycle interrupter in our ocean.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

And Siddhartha’s soul returned, died, decayed, turned into dust, experienced the troubled course of the life cycle.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse