lifetime

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“Room” shows how arduous it can be to assimilate the rules and mores of the free world after a lifetime of captivity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Female screwworm flies produce eggs only once in a lifetime, and once they mate with a sterile male fly, they’re done with their reproduction cycle without having any offspring.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Even if you believe in the goals, none of them is rationally achievable within the traditional investor’s horizon of a few years or even a few decades, much less within your lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

This lack of a roughly circular orbit around the Sun suggested either an impact early in its lifetime that put it on this path, or gravitational influence from planet nine.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

“If it helps, Auntie,” Steph says, “I don’t want to spend a lifetime away from home.”

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila