How to Use actuarial in a Sentence

actuarial

adjective
  • Anyone with easy access to an actuarial table can tell you how those things tend to go.
    — The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 16 June 2025
  • Bad in an actuarial sense, because per-capita death rates here have been among the highest in the world.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
  • On rainy days, my thoughts were downright actuarial, and most of my compulsions took the form of prayer.
    — Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • Look at an actuarial table to get the facts or visit a nursing home, where the bald heads are few and the coiffed heads are many.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al.com, 10 July 2019
  • Kaylee Cohen studied two months for an actuarial exam last year—then failed it.
    — Neal Templin, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2021
  • His must rank among the all-time most devastating spells of actuarial despair.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • But an actuarial analysis hasn’t been done yet on the Senate’s bill.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • And pass this story along to any students in your lives struggling through statistics or actuarial sciences.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2023
  • But the Fox News audience is really an actuarial game at this point.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 19 Oct. 2017
  • That means that the donors would have to have other actuarial risks to justify an extra premium or conditions.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 7 Apr. 2022
  • In the sedate world of actuarial science, Jeremy Gold was a bomb thrower.
    — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • The rate of future judicial vacancies is hard to predict for reasons that are both human and actuarial.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Six years is the entire runway, and the report arrives with the largest actuarial deficit since 1977.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Already, eight All-Stars have missed at least one playoff game -- a record I'm told by those who keep such grim actuarial numbers.
    — Steve Hummer, ajc, 19 June 2021
  • The change will definitely cost more, but how much will not be clear until the city or its pension funds perform an actuarial calculation.
    — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
  • Again, actuarial math, not ideology, drives this shift.
    — Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This is the first time the 65-year old insurer has released its EV, an actuarial measure.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The public option plan will have to undergo an actuarial study, and then the state would need to apply for a waiver from the federal government.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
  • Not in any meaningful, actuarial sense.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Simple actuarial realities dictate that Biden will not have as much time to do great things in retirement as did Carter.
    — Steve Parrish, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • By law, Citizens’ prices must be 10% above the highest market rate in each parish or the actuarial rate, whichever is higher.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Prediction is moving from nice-to-have to an actuarial necessity.
    — Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The Senate bill creates a framework for the program, with an actuarial study to be completed by October of this year.
    — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Seven years ago, the gap was about $12 billion, the result of bad advice from an actuarial firm that led to years of underfunding by state officials.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Fundraising in the name of Pi Ramsey is an actuarial consultant at a healthcare consulting firm.
    — The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • With Trout set to turn 34 in August, the actuarial tables suggest the latter is more likely than the former.
    — Tim Britton, New York Times, 13 May 2025
  • The reduction to the spousal boost is actuarial, according to the number of months before her FRA that it is taken.
    — Russell Gloor, Houston Chronicle, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Brady’s whole brand, his post-playing career purpose, is tied to being able to defy the NFL’s actuarial tables.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The Table forms the basis for actuarial computations to value annuities and the like.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • There isn’t any cost information available on the plan in its current form, but an actuarial study will be done and the state plans to apply for a waiver from the federal government for the program.
    — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 19 June 2021

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