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Recent Examples of half-life
The remaining alcohol can take up to five half-lives (i.e. 20–25 hours) to be cleared completely.
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Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2025
Image Celebrity status has a half-life, especially when much of your fan base consists of teenage boys.
—Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
For example, the isotope iodine-131 has a half-life of about eight days, while plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 28 Dec. 2024
Are they doomed to live half-lives, gauged in literal length or internal fulfillment, always under the thumb of one boss or another?
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2024
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Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2025
Image Celebrity status has a half-life, especially when much of your fan base consists of teenage boys.
—Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
For example, the isotope iodine-131 has a half-life of about eight days, while plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 28 Dec. 2024
Are they doomed to live half-lives, gauged in literal length or internal fulfillment, always under the thumb of one boss or another?
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for half-life
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The overall click duration was only 48 milliseconds, the study said.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Not Paying Attention to Sleep Hygiene Sleep hygiene can improve your sleep duration and quality.—
Sohaib Imtiaz,
Verywell Health,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Pet parents are also worried about the economy: 48% are concerned about the rising cost of pet care over their pet's lifetime, and 31% of pet parents agree the cost of pet items seems to be increasing more than other household or personal care items.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA TODAY,
23 Mar. 2025
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Join 27 others in the comments View Comments The more surgeries that are performed over a lifetime, the higher potential there is for traumatized tissue, Dr. Truesdale added, noting that revision operations are inherently more challenging.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
22 Mar. 2025
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To date, Netflix has yet to create a game, or any game-like experience, that has captured and maintained the interest of the broader public over an extended time.—
Matt Craig,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Style it with low, strappy heels for date night or go casual with white sneakers.—
Emily Weaver,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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But at this time, that’s not what’s going through his head.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2025
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While some of the most famous innovations were truly remarkable individuals coming up with the right idea at the right time, the history of innovation has had relatively few Leonardo da Vincis, Isaac Newtons, Marie Curies, or Charles Babbages.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Earlier Wednesday, Cohen had asked for a two-month continuance on the case due to staffing and budgetary shortfalls.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2025
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Under McKinley, the U.S. not only refrained from the vicious China land grab but employed its growing diplomatic influence to discourage its continuance and to deprecate the 19th-century imperialist credo.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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Trump renegotiated the free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico in his first term.—
Rob Gillies,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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Yet, most agents talk only in terms of percentages and very little else.—
LEW SICHELMAN,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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True to his word, this all went down in the span of five minutes.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
28 Mar. 2025
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Dylan Holloway, Jordan Kyrou and Robert Thomas have been three of the NHL’s top scorers in that span, helping propel St. Louis to a heady 4.1 goals per game.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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This concept, detailed in his Nicomachean Ethics, links happiness to living a meaningful life in accordance with reason.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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In 2021, a Facebook post from Combs sang her praises as controlling all aspects of his life.—
Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Half-life.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/half-life. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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