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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outlasts
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Why not also score some points with the Kele folks, especially when whomever survives at the merge could end up being the key swing votes between Uli and Hina?—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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This discipline, debating until the best idea survives, teaches future leaders to welcome scrutiny, pressure-test their own reasoning, and make tough calls with limited information.—
Ruth Umoh,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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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 5 Oct. 2025.
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