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mortality rates are higher for smokers
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His death made me aware of my own mortality.mortality = the state of being subject to death (i.e., being mortal)
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I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. (source)mortality = death
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Mortality data show that in famines and droughts, it is mostly girls who die, not boys. (source)Mortality = death rate (often given per 1,000 people per year)
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The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent. The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only 160 per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been 300 — and so it went on. (source)mortality = death rate
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He said his bout with TB had set him to pondering about mortality and the nature of the cosmos.† (source)
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Now they begged him for tales of his mortality.† (source)
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The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities.† (source)
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The things we do outlast our mortality.† (source)
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Infant mortality in the wild is high.† (source)
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Moord: mortality, mordant, morbid, murder.† (source)
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Despite America's preeminent status among developed nations, we have always struggled with high rates of infant mortality—much higher than in most developed countries.† (source)
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If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear.† (source)
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14 I BECOME A KNOWN FUGITIVE I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.† (source)
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His efforts have resulted in a nation that has the highest literacy rate in Europe, some of the best educational attainment rates, and the lowest infant mortality, inflation, and unemployment rates in the Western Hemisphere.† (source)
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And while I'm sure they're very admirable and brave and all the rest of it, I don't personally fancy the mortality rate —† (source)
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