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outlive

verb as in outlast

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By postponing saving for retirement, people have less time to save and lack the benefit of compound growth, reducing their overall retirement savings and making them more likely to outlive their money as longevity increases.

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However, she was quick to joke that her ambitions as far as doomsday prepping are concerned don’t include outliving the rest of humanity.

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In my father’s last years, I frequently lost sleep about the possibility that he might outlive his money.

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The corporation’s reputation worldwide as a reliable source of news has long outlived the reality of its daily output.

Nobody worried about it because we honestly didn’t expect him to outlive our mom.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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