outlive
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So could brain organoids grown and maintained in a lab hypothetically outlive humans?
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Women outlive men in the U.S. by around six years, so if your friend and her husband are around the same age, she is likely to outlive him.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 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
And, like Senna, his legacy will long outlive him.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
“One time when your granddaddy was a baby, I helt him in my lap. Who’d a-thought I’d outlive him!” she said, trying hard to keep aholt of herself.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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
She also outlives her breeding years, making her one of the few species known to go through menopause.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 2024
“A ghost is a hunger, one so strong it outlives the body.”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
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
Yet some traditions have outlived the kingdoms that created them.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
But Adams outlived that prediction, livestreaming from his hospital bed during a stay for radiation treatment before Christmas and picking up again from his bed at home after that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026
He had outlived Sela, outwitted Cluny, and pulled the wool over the eyes of an abbeyful of mice.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
She includes a brief appreciation of her wig stylist and reports outliving a few plastic surgeons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
However, she was quick to joke that her ambitions as far as doomsday prepping are concerned don’t include outliving the rest of humanity.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 20, 2025
People tend to view them primarily as investments to be judged against market returns, rather than as insurance against outliving one’s assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
Even the very wealthy fret over everything from strained family dynamics and outliving their savings to the specter of inflation and the prospect of missing the next big investment trend.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
In Cuba, Fidel Castro held on to power long after Kennedy and Khrushchev were gone, even outliving the Cold War.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
