outlast
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The default brought an early end to an excellent contest, with 39-year-old Djokovic having played superbly to outlast an opponent nine years his junior.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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
"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
Her daughter, too, would outlast the hard flames.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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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
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
“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
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
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
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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
Turning off the machines and meeting the folks next door could be the key to outlasting or escaping this cyberpunk nightmare.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 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
Curs'd be each vision that befools us, Of fame, outlasting earthly life!
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks
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