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No mother ever wants to outlive her children, but Vanderbilt actually witnessed her son's plunge from the 14th floor of her New York apartment in 1988, The New York Times reported. — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, "Gloria Vanderbilt, the mom: What she said about the loss of a child, Anderson Cooper coming out," 17 June 2019 Howe outlived Melville and Whitman, both of whom died at the age of seventy-two, in 1891 and 1892 respectively. — Elaine Showalter, The New York Review of Books, "Whitman, Melville, & Julia Ward Howe: A Tale of Three Bicentennials," 27 May 2019 But texts outlive the people who write them, memory of their initial purpose fades, and words take on new meaning and power. — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, "A Terribly Durable Myth," 17 June 2019 Black Mirror may have already outlived its relevance. — Judy Berman, Time, "Black Mirror Used to Be a Terrifying Vision of the Future. Season 5 Is Just Silly," 5 June 2019 That person’s family and their descendants outlived and out-reproduced their peers at an astonishing rate. — Megan Molteni, WIRED, "A Study Exposes the Health Risks of Gene-Editing Human Embryos," 3 June 2019 But that viewpoint may have outlived its usefulness. — Quanta Magazine, "Goals and Rewards Redraw the Brain’s Map of the World," 28 Mar. 2019 Storage drives frequently outlive PC builds, so my DIY Franken-system is loaded with a variety of drive types from past machines. — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, "Windows 10's latest Insider preview gives Task Manager a simple, stellar storage enhancement," 15 May 2019 Cole survived, and would outlive all his 79 fellow raiders.... — Laura Hillenbrand, WSJ, "The Last of the Doolittle Raiders Is Gone," 11 Apr. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'outlive.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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