outlive

Example Sentences

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But Iran’s state apparatus was built to outlive individual leaders, thanks to layered and overlapping centers of political and military power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

"Billy Steinberg's life was a testament to the enduring power of a well-written song - and to the idea that honesty, when set to music, can outlive us all," the family's statement read.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

"That afternoon... will never leave me. You don't expect to outlive your children," Yorath told the Observer in 2005.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

They will create an organizational structure designed to outlive Rhodes.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2025

These rock gardens had outlived the barracks and the towers and would surely outlive the asphalt road and rusted pipes and shattered slabs of concrete.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston