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- noun Plural form of
half-life .
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Examples
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After being victimized, most wounded people lead half-lives, consumed with anger, bitterness, shame, and pain.
Jack Watts: Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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After being victimized, most wounded people lead half-lives, consumed with anger, bitterness, shame, and pain.
Jack Watts: Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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Ractopamine residues "represent a genuine risk to consumers," wrote a medical journal article, citing "long plasma half-lives, and relatively slow rates of elimination."
Martha Rosenberg: Arsenic, Antibiotics and Asthma Drugs in Your Turkey? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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Until they were buried, the tools like everything else on the surface of the planet were exposed to cosmic rays, leaving a signature of radioactive beryllium and aluminum, which have very long half-lives on their surfaces.
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In this way, irregular verbs behave in just the same way as radioactive atoms and have half-lives.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Its power would outlast the half-lives of the radioactive isotopes, timeless and eternal as the sun.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Most discarded Christians lead half-lives, consumed with pain, anger, shame, and bitterness.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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Its power would outlast the half-lives of the radioactive isotopes, timeless and eternal as the sun.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Some people never retrieve it and lead half-lives that are ruled by suspicion.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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Even being conservative, the radioactive half-lives of these elements pin the age of the tools to about 1.5 million years ago.
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