outlast
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According to Kuga, the trend should outlast the current period of inflation, as brick-and-mortar retailers seek new reasons to attract customers who are increasingly buying household products via Amazon subscriptions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The anxious spiral can outlast the physical symptoms, because it feeds on itself: worry disrupts thinking, and disrupted thinking produces more worry.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
Dad always worked from sunup until sundown in the weeks before the first snow, trying to stockpile enough money from hauling scrap and building barns to outlast the winter, when jobs were scarce.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
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
Diplomats share stories of trips to places like Ukraine, Japan, Egypt, Cambodia and Indonesia in which he often outlasts younger colleagues.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
“To return to Horatio’s question,” I said with a reasoned tone, “I believe that a virtuous mind outlasts the fleeting beauty of youth and thus is more desirable.”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Just as they did two years ago, when the Rams outlasted the Bills for a 44-42 victory, the teams put on a show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
“They’re not fading,” she said, in part because the war has outlasted forecasts that it would end by August since forecasters assumed the alternative would be too damaging to the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
That was evident at this year's Wimbledon, where he outlasted Felix Auger-Aliassime, 14 years his junior, in a five-set thriller that became the longest quarter-final in the tournament's history.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
And Villa’s horsemen had outridden and outlasted our town boys.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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The Mustang has also been notable for outlasting its many competitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The buzz: Both teams are unbeaten and each survived scares in the quarterfinals, with England outlasting Norway in extra time in brutal weather in Miami and Argentina beating Switzerland in extra time in Kansas City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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
Genius moves upward, treading events under its feet, scaling Olympus, making a ladder of mankind, outlasting its own activity for ever in a final and fixed glory more splendid than its own bright path.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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