as in death
the death especially of large numbers of people or animals
Tuberculosis was a leading cause of mortality back then.
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Recent Examples of mortality
Mellencamp’s tale of two lovers on the cusp of adulthood, staring down the barrel of societal expectations—with mortality looming in the background—is rife with the details of an Indiana that raised the singer.
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Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
In Chile’s Antofagasta region, cancer mortality is the highest in the country.
—Kaveh Madani, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2026
But for anyone infected who also has an immunocompromising condition or a liver condition, mortality reaches 50–60 percent.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
Rather than a Cash-ian meditation on mortality, Long Long Road finds Starr looking back at his own journey with a sense of wonder.
—Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
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Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
In Chile’s Antofagasta region, cancer mortality is the highest in the country.
—Kaveh Madani, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2026
But for anyone infected who also has an immunocompromising condition or a liver condition, mortality reaches 50–60 percent.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
Rather than a Cash-ian meditation on mortality, Long Long Road finds Starr looking back at his own journey with a sense of wonder.
—Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mortality
Noun
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But those numbers capture only a fraction of deaths, which often are classified only by other, more immediate causes, such as bleeding in the brain.—
Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
6 May 2026
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Too much damage has been done to the character in recent years, to the point that any death would be seen as a mercy killing now.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
6 May 2026
Noun
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Jackson's death was later declared a homicide at the hands of Murray, who administered the fatal dose of Propofol.—
Alex Gurley,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
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More than two decades after a North Carolina teen died in what was considered a hit-and-run, investigators now say a police officer has been identified as a person of interest in the homicide case.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Mortality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortality. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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