How to Use survivorship in a Sentence

survivorship

noun
  • Then there’s survivorship bias; what about all the people who jumped ship, went all in with the shiny object and didn’t win big?
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • At the beginning of the game, Rugai announces each survivor’s name and the length of her survivorship.
    Eliza Fawcett, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
  • When a spouse passes away and the spouses owned their home with right of survivorship, should the surviving spouse go to probate to sell the house?
    Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2022
  • In the joint tenants with rights of survivorship arrangement, on the death of one tenant, the survivor will, by law, own the entire house.
    Benny L. Kass, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Even so, the law provided at least one strong protection for the wife — survivorship.
    Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • If anything, survivorship seemed to increase in old age.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2011
  • Those who are expelled may feel a sense of betrayal, while those who remain can be consumed by the guilt of survivorship.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The fine print stipulates a right of refusal, right of survivorship and, of course, a perpetuity clause.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 18 June 2022
  • If the account holders are joint tenants with right of survivorship, then the other holders become the owners of the account.
    Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • My financial planner says the rules on survivorship have changed.
    Liz Weston, oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Then will come the aftermath: the heart-rending stories of loss; the harrowing stories of survivorship.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2017
  • That is what Mitchell and Trask were doing, along with a palpable and surely timeless embrace of survivorship.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2019
  • The rising rates also raise questions about what happens to younger patients in survivorship.
    Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Similar to the West Health/Hopkins report, there is a strong survivorship bias in looking at the largest of any industry and extracting trends.
    John Stanford, STAT, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Natural foods such as acorns, skunk cabbage and grubs are abundant and bears’ reproductive success and the survivorship of cubs are both high.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The responsible thing is usually to choose survivorship rights, even though the payout will be lower.
    Neal Templin, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • The job of nurse navigator doesn’t end after survivorship.
    Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2020
  • They are used by scientists to study growth, survivorship and fish movement and have been inserted into some brown trout within the Colorado River.
    The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The two options are tenants in common — where each owns an indivisible half of the property — or joint tenants with rights of survivorship.
    Benny L. Kass, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • At this stage of your life, therapy can help you to integrate all of the varied strands of your past, and finally – to celebrate your impressive survivorship!
    Amy Dickinson, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2022
  • At this stage of your life, therapy can help you to integrate all of the varied strands of your past, and finally — to celebrate your impressive survivorship!
    Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • As the population of kids who beat cancer grows, health experts are calling for more emphasis on survivorship care.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • The survivorship program is about looking ahead, looking forward.
    Nancy Shohet West, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
  • Snakeheads reproduce twice a year and both parents closely guard their offspring, which is unusual for our fish fauna, and that has led to high levels of survivorship.
    National Geographic, 17 Mar. 2016
  • Without it, if one spouse dies, the other automatically inherits the other half – known as the right of survivorship.
    Janna Herron, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Adding yourself as a co-owner, with right of survivorship, or as a convenience signer on your child’s bank account(s) is also recommended.
    Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2021
  • And not just the patients, but their family members and the community, from diagnosis through the journey of survivorship.
    Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2018
  • Cancer death rates have dropped – and survivorship has gone up – in every U.S. state and territory during the period studied.
    Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 28 July 2024
  • Each population has its own pressures, and must strike its own balance between factors such as birthweight and survivorship.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2011
  • The survivorship feature will disappear, and each owner’s heirs would inherit their portion of the property.
    Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2020

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