MORTALITY Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

mortality

noun

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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 Late Shift‘s villain is not mortality, however, so much as burnout — yet another thing the movie has in common with The Pitt, whose still-in-progress second season has upgraded the subject of essential worker fatigue from subtext to text. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2026 Eighteen of those mortality events were because of GFP removal (and the majority of which were hunter harvest). —

Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 20 Mar. 2026 Greifinger, the correctional health expert, said the sheriff’s office should commission an independent mortality review to study whether any jail operations, staffing or other shortcomings are exacerbating external factors and resulting in preventable deaths. —

Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026 An unusual mortality event between 2019 and 2023 led to over a 50% population decline since 2016 that scientists believe is exacerbated by changing Arctic conditions, the center said. —

Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mortality

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MacEgan family speaks in court Before Abril was formally sentenced, the court allowed the MacEgan family to speak about the impact of these crimes and the family patriarch’s death.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026
In Dallas-Fort Worth, there were 104,378 births and 53,559 deaths, which means 50,819 of the area’s new residents were a result of natural population change.

— Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2026