as in survived
to last longer than
I truly hope this car will outlast our previous one your work will probably outlast you
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Recent Examples of outlasted
The Oklahoma City Thunder closed the 2024-25 NBA regular season with a 68-14 record, the best win total in franchise history, and then outlasted the Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers in a seven-game NBA Finals.
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Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
After a hat trick against Nashville SC to close the MLS regular season, Messi outlasted LAFC’s Denis Bouanga and Nashville SC’s Sam Surridge to win the 2025 scoring crown with 29 goals.
—Avi Creditor, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Tweak any number of environmental factors, and the tool-wielding, yarn-weaving Homo neanderthalensis may have outlasted its Homo sapien cousins (aka humans) instead of going extinct around 40,000 years ago.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025
The Vara bow, a fixture of the house for nearly 50 years, sits at the center of its latest campaign — a quiet acknowledgment of a design that has outlasted trend cycles for nearly five decades.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
Bezos pointed to the large-scale investment in fiber-optic cable that came out of the dotcom bubble as an example of a benefit that outlasted some of the companies from that era.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Bin Laden outlasted Bellevue, too, before succumbing.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Pope outlasted Hollis and Panaro.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 28 Sep. 2025
All these years later, Corigliano’s symphony has outlasted those skirmishes and emerged sounding fresh and exciting and powerful.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
After a hat trick against Nashville SC to close the MLS regular season, Messi outlasted LAFC’s Denis Bouanga and Nashville SC’s Sam Surridge to win the 2025 scoring crown with 29 goals.
—Avi Creditor, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Tweak any number of environmental factors, and the tool-wielding, yarn-weaving Homo neanderthalensis may have outlasted its Homo sapien cousins (aka humans) instead of going extinct around 40,000 years ago.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025
The Vara bow, a fixture of the house for nearly 50 years, sits at the center of its latest campaign — a quiet acknowledgment of a design that has outlasted trend cycles for nearly five decades.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
Bezos pointed to the large-scale investment in fiber-optic cable that came out of the dotcom bubble as an example of a benefit that outlasted some of the companies from that era.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Bin Laden outlasted Bellevue, too, before succumbing.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Pope outlasted Hollis and Panaro.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 28 Sep. 2025
All these years later, Corigliano’s symphony has outlasted those skirmishes and emerged sounding fresh and exciting and powerful.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outlasted
Verb
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Sophia’s brother, who was with her that day, survived unharmed.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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The two supes are the only two babies known to have survived the experiment of injecting Compound V into utero babies (which resulted in the deaths of several other babies receiving the same treatment).—
Demetrius Patterson,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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But with the advent of new materials and technologies in the latter half of the 20th century, many of these styles outlived their usefulness in the original contexts they were meant to be worn.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
17 Oct. 2025
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Samuel Adams also outlived his.—
Stacy Schiff,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Outlasted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outlasted. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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