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
The mortality study had an average age of about 66 and 30% were women.
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Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
This year’s rise in beneficiaries is driven not by a sudden decline in mortality but by a 12% increase in new Old-Age and Survivors Insurance beneficiary awards.
—Justin Fox, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2025
But the Emmy Award winner was also candid about his own mortality — and how many second chances at life he had been given over the years.
—Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
This interactive dashboard brought together a wealth of drug mortality and demographic data that allowed users to compare county-level overdose rates with the socioeconomic conditions in that area.
—Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
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Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
This year’s rise in beneficiaries is driven not by a sudden decline in mortality but by a 12% increase in new Old-Age and Survivors Insurance beneficiary awards.
—Justin Fox, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2025
But the Emmy Award winner was also candid about his own mortality — and how many second chances at life he had been given over the years.
—Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
This interactive dashboard brought together a wealth of drug mortality and demographic data that allowed users to compare county-level overdose rates with the socioeconomic conditions in that area.
—Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mortality
Noun
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The news came amid officials stating that a coroner found inconsistencies in her death, though discrepancies were not reported in 2018, and no autopsy was performed.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Weekly Newsletter Hamida’s first such meeting is with a twelve-year-old Hindu girl named Kammo, whose father abandoned her after the death of her mother.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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The details surrounding the case, which became the subject of Netflix’s 2015 documentary Making a Murderer, remain unclear, with no official cause of death apart from homicide and no eyewitnesses to the crime.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact KCPD homicide detectives at 816-234-5043 or the anonymous TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS, Becchina said.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Mortality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortality. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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