outlive

“Maybe Ukraine will have to outlive someone in Moscow in order to achieve all its goals... to restore the full integrity of Ukraine.”

When I was on a trip with my college friends years ago, we joked about how we should all live together if we outlive our husbands.

Or this: You keep seeing headlines about melting ice caps — that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by 2050 — and you wonder, fleetingly, if you will outlive the polar bears.

Charley, an aging African elephant, had outlived other elephants at a South Africa zoo.

That, I think, is when I realized I was contributing to creating things that were going to outlive me someday.