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outlast

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


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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

In his Beijing hotel suite, Carney watched the news from Greenland play out on the TV and debated with aides whether Trump’s demands would outlast him and become U.S. policy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

There are few fortunes that can outlast a dementia illness or other ailment that requires full-time care for 20-plus years.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

Companies are vying to outlast the competition on range.

From Barron's Apr. 24, 2026

More likely the worst would happen: the simple passage of time, in which his animal toughness would easily outlast my human frailty.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

But their vision for the future is a stable source of private demand, separate from timber and fiber, that outlasts presidential administrations and budget windows.

From New York Times Apr. 4, 2024

Though short-lived, the force that aligns the spins outlasts the duration of the light pulse by a significant margin.

From Science Daily Nov. 9, 2023

“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

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

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

It wasn’t until 1989, in fact, that the Indianapolis Clowns officially disbanded, having outlasted the Negro Leagues themselves by several decades.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

Both actors understood the task: to interrogate what drove each man to create music and why one’s compositions outlasted the other.

From Los Angeles Times May 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

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

Los Angeles is the baseball king for a second consecutive season, outlasting the relentlessly spirited Toronto Blue Jays in a seven-game classic.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 18, 2025

“Late Night With Seth Meyers” recently celebrated its 10th year on air, outlasting “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2025

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

From Salon Mar. 31, 2025

Sceptres outlasting long the hands that held them, Thrones that have seated dynasties may fall: Love never dies, his chain is linked to heaven, The Lord, the friend, the comforter of all.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers




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