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- noun Alternative spelling of
shelf life .
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Examples
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Our consumer culture depends on owning the latest and greatest gadgets, yet the shelflife is short and the cycle will be repeated again with the next IPhone in 12 months.
Ron Galloway: I've Seen The New Kindle (And It's An iPhone) 2008
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This culture promotes novelty and nostalgia, obsolescence and shelflife, indulgence and discipline.
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We owe it to our children to limit her political shelflife right now, while we have the chance.
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One fo the reason I still re-watch the Carpenter classic is the effects are models and seem to have a longer shelflife than CGI, which dates quickly.
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The things _do_ have a disturbingly long shelflife.
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You really do need to keep them in the fridge it seems, and their shelflife is such that they are more suited to the home-cook or craft-y chef than to commercial production.
Ratafia Mafia Lindy 2007
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You really do need to keep them in the fridge it seems, and their shelflife is such that they are more suited to the home-cook or craft-y chef than to commercial production.
In a Glass Lindy 2007
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You really do need to keep them in the fridge it seems, and their shelflife is such that they are more suited to the home-cook or craft-y chef than to commercial production.
Toast: Lindy 2007
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Well, not so much a unanimous-but-wrong holding, but rather a unanimous-but wrong *dictum* that had more shelflife, and caused more mischief, than any ordinary holding:
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I've been a PD for a few years now and I believe my shelflife is expiring for landing a faculty position.
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