outlive
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Heck, Bernard Herrmann’s eerie theme song alone will outlive humanity.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
That’s called the “survivor’s penalty” — or, sometimes, the “widow’s tax,” primarily because women outlive men by roughly six years, on average.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
So could brain organoids grown and maintained in a lab hypothetically outlive humans?
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
When old records make it to a landfill, they’re not only likely to outlive the site, but can also leach plasticizers, a Keele University report found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
These rock gardens had outlived the barracks and the towers and would surely outlive the asphalt road and rusted pipes and shattered slabs of concrete.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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If idealism outlives youth, ESG investing will grow significantly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
Second, if she outlives him, I assume his children might resent her, since that could tie up a sizable portion of their inheritance.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
In Adamsville, as in America, the myth of a man always outlives the man—and, today especially, seems also to outlast the truth.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025
And the state can’t put a claim on it if there is a co-owner who outlives the Medi-Cal beneficiary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
“A ghost is a hunger, one so strong it outlives the body.”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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The fact that it outlived “The Swan” by several years only enhanced its role in mainstreaming elective cosmetic surgery.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
I have already outlived my male predecessors by about six years — the oldest died at 78 — and I suspect I may not have many years left.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
That’s what I wanted to do, make something that outlived me — really.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Grief of a different sort was a feature of her tumultuous relationship with her oldest son, Robert, the only child who outlived her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
“Maybe it is too late. Perhaps I have outlived my religious feel- • » ing. “My own comes only at night.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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Funds are outliving their intended lifespans as fund managers struggle to sell the remaining assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
That’s hardly surprising, since annuities protect annuitants from so-called longevity risk — outliving your money.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Yet despite the theoretical value of these contracts in insuring against outliving one’s wealth, people very rarely buy annuities.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
If that happens a few years in a row, you run a real risk of eventually outliving your money, despite what the historical data say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Baby Kochamma loved the Ayemenem house and cherished the furniture that she had inherited by outliving everybody else.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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