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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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In February 2023, the company sent a wide email to all customers extending the maximum fade duration to three years and offering refunds if a tattoo outlasts that time frame.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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What To Know Retirement checks are distributed throughout the month, based on the recipient's birth date and the duration of their benefit payments.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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Approximately one in five women and 1 in 33 men will be the victim of rape in their lifetime.—
Jeffrey O'Brien,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2025
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But after spending most of my lifetime living, working, playing, raising a family and suffering the weather challenges of Chicago and southwest Michigan, our San Antonio in Jalisco, Mexico, is a winter paradise.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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This motif may have aggravated audiences’ impatience with the story, the most polarizing of the show’s to date.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2025
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The launch date is dependent on spacecraft traffic to the ISS and in-orbit activity planning and constraints that have to be coordinated with NASA.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Apr. 2025
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Coachella announced the times via social media posts; see the full lineups for both weekends on the festival’s Instagram post, below.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2025
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Only families living in Kansas are being considered at this time.—
The Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Apr. 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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This game against the Thunder is critical and could go a long way in terms of them staying in contention for home-court advantage.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
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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Women often lose income, take on the bulk of caregiving, and carry the invisible labor of rebuilding a life, while men complain of the long-tail financial consequences of alimony, support payments, and assets split down the middle.—
Ruhama Wolle,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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By Jenna Ryu To say the last few years of Olivia Munn’s life have been a rollercoaster doesn’t fully capture what she’s been through.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Half-life.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/half-life. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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