half-lifes

variants or half-lives
Definition of half-lifesnext
plural of half-life

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Noun
  • More than half of all Americans have either been or will be included in a blended family during their lifetimes, with 1,300 new stepfamilies forming every day, according to nonprofit The Stepfamily Foundation.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Our context windows are our lifetimes; our tokens are uncountable.
    Charles Yu, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • While this design choice might seem inconvenient for prolonged use, a light press suffices, and most users will likely engage the stabilization for short durations.
    Matt Morris, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2026
  • While most storage systems provide power in four-hour durations, or increasingly, eight hours, the iron-air battery technology Google is using, from a company called Form Energy, aims to dispatch up to 100 hours of power at a time.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In games between two of the three teams tied atop the standings, the two teams with the fewest runs allowed per defensive out recorded would advance.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • In 18 2/3 innings this season, Hovermale has allowed zero runs while striking out 27 and walking one.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Here’s what to know about the time change practice and this year’s dates.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The footprints and the dates tell us this was an environment that held attractive resources for animals, with opportunities for grazing, but also for people.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • According to the researchers, shifting the blockchain processes closer to the hardware level resulted in performance improvements of up to 500 times and energy efficiency gains of as much as 10,000 percent compared with conventional implementations.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Emails obtained by Fox 5 DC and WJLA-TV show that the Fairfax County Police Department had warned Descano’s office multiple times about Jalloh in the months leading up to Minter’s murder.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In simpler terms, these features make the robot more stable, faster, and more resilient in industrial environments.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
  • GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, revealed the news in a blog post, but no financial terms were disclosed.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • What are the life spans of data centers?
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The concept of Mother Earth or Mother Nature as the center of the universe and source of all life spans Indigenous cultures around the globe.
    Melinda Laituri, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
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“Half-lifes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/half-lifes. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.

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