outlast

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Oversight of payments to your brother not only prevents him from squandering the money, but it helps family wealth outlast a single generation, the law firm adds.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

In a Thursday note, Oxford Economics analysts cautioned that Asia’s energy shortages will outlast a cease-fire, with shipping backlogs and transit times suggesting cargoes are weeks away even if the truce holds.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

About themselves, about the infinite expanse of creativity, about the power of music to cross borders, outlast wars, span centuries and still inspire.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

The long-term consequences could outlast the war itself, reshaping regional alignments in ways that leave Iran more isolated.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

The Aristotelian system would outlast Alexander's empire; it would survive until Elizabethan times, the sixteenth century.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife