lifetime

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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

MarketWatch Picks: My adviser promised I’d get a lifetime income, but I found out there’s only $100K left in the account.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

He has framed his campaign around his lifetime of work in politics and his credibility working both in Congress in Washington DC and in California in state office.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

He had, almost within grasp, the story of a lifetime.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin