lifetime

Example Sentences

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As long as she understands that waiting preserves her highest possible lifetime income, it ultimately comes down to a tradeoff.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

The chip also incorporates high-speed sensors capable of measuring photon lifetime with extremely high temporal precision.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

“When tribal healthcare was on the line, he was there. This experience comes from a lifetime of public service, not a checkbook.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

In a breezy, sun-soaked 90 minutes, Romvari excavates a lifetime of knotted, intergenerational trauma — a phrase that almost feels too heavy and too burdened by cryptic implications, given how this movie explores it.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

I’d probably read more newspapers in one week than he’d read in his entire lifetime!

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan