mortality
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He has a vision of his own mortality while eating chicken wings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Life expectancy is an estimate of the average number of years a person might live based on a country’s mortality rates.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
But the first weeks of a red panda’s life are fragile, with a mortality rate of roughly 40% for cubs under 1 year of age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
"Lip and oral cavity cancer was the seventh leading cancer type in cancer incidence and mortality rate worldwide in adolescents, young adults, and middle-aged adults in 2022," says Daniell.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
At present neither infant mortality nor the birthrate runs high in the civilized areas of Gethen.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Officials say this is the first time in decades that elephant mortalities on this scale have been recorded in the region where they have successfully cracked down on poaching.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Poaching and road mortalities are two further threats that need to be addressed to ensure the persistance of leopards in the landscapes.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
Platt and his colleagues waited several nail-biting days to hear about the assessed damage and potential mortalities of the monkeys.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2025
Gray whales seem to have gone through these more dramatic vacillations, enduring three different periods of major mortalities and bouncing back before the most recent five-year event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
Cumulative mortalities of these previously unexposed peoples from Eurasian germs ranged from 50 percent to 100 percent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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