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

The upshot is that those premiums are, for the most part, guaranteed to remain fixed and never increase over your entire lifetime, as long as the monthly payments are maintained.

From MarketWatch • 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

The French company said it was taking the game, which attracted more than 12 million players during its lifetime, offline, citing "upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints".

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

I do not know how long we stood there in the hallway, waiting, but it seemed like a lifetime.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo