How to Use actuary in a Sentence

actuary

noun
  • But the actuary wasn’t content to just look at his own firm’s records.
    — Fortune, 29 June 2017
  • My father was an actuary and my mother was a stay-at-home mom.
    — Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Each group crafts its own, often with the help of pet actuaries.
    — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
  • One in two women and one in three men will live past 90, the actuaries say.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2019
  • Most of us just want to remain in decent health and last a bit longer than the actuaries predict.
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The keepers of joy in a world run by accountants and actuaries.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
  • But even the most useless actuary would advise you against opening a newsstand.
    — Nathan King, airmail.news, 20 Apr. 2024
  • But the ranks of others, like actuaries, have continued to grow.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Politicians have often failed to pay in as much as the actuaries recommend.
    — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
  • More often than not, another firm is then hired to help manage the rates of return that the actuary suggests.
    — James Brewer, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • And, the city agreed to pay the full annual cost as recommended by fund actuaries.
    — Bill Turque, kansascity, 26 Jan. 2018
  • My high school biology teacher told me to become an actuary.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In doing so, an actuary assigns dollar values to events that might happen once in a decade or once in a century.
    — Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The chief actuary was responding to a request by four senators, all Democrats.
    — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Many of the assumptions actuaries used proved to be erroneous.
    — Elliot Raphaelson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • That’s according to a nearly year-old projection from the actuary for the city’s pension system.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • But the actuary recommended that the city pay none of the money during the ongoing fiscal year.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The $380 million raised by the tax could cut that increase in half, according to actuaries.
    — Erin Cox, baltimoresun.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The doula reimbursement is capped at $1,200 per client, a rate set by an actuary hired by the state of Ohio.
    — Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • Creten was an actuary in Colorado before moving to Cedarburg.
    — Lydia Morrell, Journal Sentinel, 22 July 2022
  • Milliman, the actuary, will discuss the height of that wall during Friday's board meeting.
    — Ted Sickinger, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2017
  • The latter is the 75-year span over which the system’s actuaries calculate its finances.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Guarantees are for actuaries and car warranty salesmen, not fate deciders in the heart of March.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Much like lawyers and accountants, actuaries have a professional duty to protect the public and to serve the greater good.
    — Mary Williams Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
  • The actuaries' study basically adds to a large and robust body of evidence showing a gulf in longevity between rich and poor.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The team had to field questions from actuaries, an exercise which forced them to think on their feet and apply their knowledge to a variety of scenarios.
    — Erika Rose, Post-Tribune, 7 June 2018
  • The board’s unanimous vote came weeks after pension-plan actuaries confirmed the program would be cost-neutral, as state law requires.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Of all the factors Donelon and his staff of actuaries consider when reviewing requests for rate increases, there are two big ones.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Scott, the whistleblower who filed the lawsuit in 2016, is a former actuary for Humana.
    — Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Nearly a third of them will suffer brain damage, according to the NFL’s own actuaries.
    — Steve Almond, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023

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