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shelf life

NOUN
useful life of product
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May you outlast the shelf life of a carton of milk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The disease can also lower crop yields and shorten shelf life, making it a costly challenge for mushroom farms across the United States.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Fresh pasteurised milk, which has a shorter shelf life, had been more affected than the more long-life UHT milk, he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Hostess had worked, before the Smucker acquisition, to lengthen that shelf life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

There are cheeses with a longer shelf life.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris


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