as in survival
uninterrupted or lasting life
The two became close friends after sharing the same journey of survivorship from cancer.
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MassMutual’s survivorship policy is a good fit for couples interested in estate planning.
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Liz Knueven, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2024
The team used this data to create what are known as survivorship curves – essentially, plotting a graph of how many individuals survive to each age.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2024
Property is treated as a covered bequest when acquired by reason of a covered expatriate's death including property rights passing under a right of survivorship, annuity payments, property subject to a general power of appointment, and life insurance proceeds.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Current approaches to drug development, including those using AI, may have fallen into a survivorship bias trap, overly focusing on less critical aspects of the process while overlooking major problems that contribute most to failure.
—Christian MacEdonia, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2025
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Liz Knueven, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2024
The team used this data to create what are known as survivorship curves – essentially, plotting a graph of how many individuals survive to each age.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2024
Property is treated as a covered bequest when acquired by reason of a covered expatriate's death including property rights passing under a right of survivorship, annuity payments, property subject to a general power of appointment, and life insurance proceeds.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Current approaches to drug development, including those using AI, may have fallen into a survivorship bias trap, overly focusing on less critical aspects of the process while overlooking major problems that contribute most to failure.
—Christian MacEdonia, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Survivorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/survivorship. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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