outlive
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Heck, Bernard Herrmann’s eerie theme song alone will outlive humanity.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
So could brain organoids grown and maintained in a lab hypothetically outlive humans?
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
And it should help you enjoy your nest egg and not outlive it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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
I would always tell people that I believe children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
If idealism outlives youth, ESG investing will grow significantly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
If my wife outlives me, we always thought she could switch over to and collect my Social Security monthly payment because it’s considerably larger.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 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
The food bank was a success and still operates today, having unfortunately outlived two of the congregations that founded it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
Now 60, I have outlived my mother, and I’m also surrounded by young people — my two daughters and my students — just as my parents were on their long-distance adventures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Speakeasies long ago outlived their purpose as clandestine sellers of alcohol, but their appeal has endured.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Yet some traditions have outlived the kingdoms that created them.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
But old attitudes and distorted stubborn impressions of my father outlived Arnold Perl and James Baldwin.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
If you expect to live a long time, a lifetime annuity can provide valuable protection against outliving your assets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
If you stick to that, raising the amount you withdraw every year by no more than the rate of inflation, you should be certain of outliving your savings.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Funds are outliving their intended lifespans as fund managers struggle to sell the remaining assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Annuities, bond ladders and market portfolios each solve different retirement challenges, but only annuities insure longevity risk, or the risk of outliving one’s savings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 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
