outlasts

present tense third-person singular of outlast
as in survives
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 outlasts Many go on to further education, civil-service roles, or even local panchayats, building a pipeline of community leadership that outlasts any single campaign. Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 North Crowley withstands delay, outlasts DeSoto To start the game, DeSoto (0-2) struck first in a hurry. Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello (2008) made Sally Hemings, from whom not a word survives, a figure crucial to understanding the workings of power in the early American republic.
    Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Apart from the rare individual that survives and develops immunity, symptomatic deer will succumb to EHD within 36 hours.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • If the spouse with the lower amount outlives the higher earner, the surviving spouse will receive the higher benefit.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The work of the future will not be that which outlives the machine, but that which can question, supervise, integrate and guide it.
    Cristian Randieri, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Outlasts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outlasts. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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