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outlast

[aut-last, -lahst] / ˌaʊtˈlæst, -ˈlɑst /


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You are now in your 50s, and, given that one of you may outlast the other by several years, it’s worth looking into.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

“This story may outlast me,” she wrote. “but it’s not going to outlast or outsmart that little girl.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Dr Simon Kaye, author of the Re:State report told the BBC that No 10 North had to be big enough to outlast the Burnham administration.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

"We want to go beyond personal relationships so that the relationship becomes more institutionally based and can outlast changes in government," the source said on condition of anonymity.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Think of this as a game, Jack. Above all else, do not take personally what is happening to you. Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis.”

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren

Now, with royalty streams from two approved drugs and a pipeline built on its platform for engineering gut-stable peptides, Protagonist may have a business that outlasts the current fad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Ben Shelton to the semis 🔥 Shelton outlasts the defending champion Alcaraz in a five-set thriller!

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

A prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz, he added, could produce damage to energy infrastructure that outlasts the conflict itself.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

If your debt outlasts the Department of Education, alas, you’re not out of the woods yet.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2025

“The Germans are at the extreme limit of their efforts....Victory will come to the side that outlasts the other!”

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

In his 28 years at Apple — 15 of those as CEO — Cook has outlasted the tenure of Jobs, the company’s defining co-founder.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

The forfeiture fight outlasted his flying career, and last year it produced the ruling the Supreme Court will now review.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

They also outlasted a Saudi-led coalition that fought for seven years to dislodge the group—a U.S.-designated terrorist organization—after it seized San’a and a swath of northwestern Yemen in a civil war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

She's worked in video games for 11 years, experienced three rounds of layoffs, and says her career has already outlasted many who enter the industry and "burn out".

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Throughout the Cold War, the communist world saw its spies and spymasters come and go; Markus Wolf outlasted all of them.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

The Mustang has also been notable for outlasting its many competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

But the episode confirmed that this South African-born outsider has become a force in Trump's Washington, outlasting his friend Elon Musk, whose White House career ended in acrimony after less than six months.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

But Draper demonstrated he was a different beast during the Australian Open in January, outlasting three successive opponents in gruelling five-set matches.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025

That’s a surefire strategy for surviving horror, or at least outlasting everyone else.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

Yet they are outlasting the forage, and to-night against some opinion I decided Christopher must go.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott




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