outlast
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Little did Russia and Germany know they were forming the kernels of nation-states that would outlast their own empires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The challenge is to build systems that outlast an individual officer, he adds.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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
"We want to go beyond personal relationships so that the relationship becomes more institutionally based and can outlast changes in government," the source said on condition of anonymity.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 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
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
At 37 years old, with probably just a couple more prime seasons left, this could be his last chance to build something that outlasts his playing career.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 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
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
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
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
The 30-year-old quarterback outlasted the Los Angeles Rams in overtime by defying football aging curves and using his legs to top the Super Bowl favorites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
It started early in the morning on the day of the contest and didn’t end until only the winning kite flew in the sky—I remember one year the tournament outlasted daylight.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
The hysteria has been a many-splendored thing, outlasting the original revelations by weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Australian Alexander Volkanovski cemented his supremacy in the UFC featherweight division on Sunday after again outlasting rival Diego Lopes in a gruelling rematch in Sydney.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
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
That’s a surefire strategy for surviving horror, or at least outlasting everyone else.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
Neither railing,-453- nor fretfulness, nor too great egotism, is wise in letter-writing, for written words have a sad fashion of outlasting the mood in which they were penned, nay, even the hand that penned them.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
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