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as in to overstay
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as in to outlast
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Recent Examples of outstay
Better to outstay your welcome than give it all up too soon.
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Phil Hay,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
Clocking in at a tidy 73 minutes, Good Boy never outstays its welcome, and the spooky goings-on lead to a climax when a ghostly black figure that has been haunting Indy finally, monstrously, appears to pull Todd to hell.
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Laura Martin,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
Lexx reinvented itself each season, and Season 3 — set on the planets of Fire and Water — didn't outstay its welcome at 13 episodes.
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Chris McMullen,
Space.com,
2 Aug. 2025
And at less than two hours with an intermission, the show doesn’t outstay its welcome.
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Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
The overbearing Dawn, who has outstayed her welcome in what was supposed to be a temporary lockdown solution, is not Joe’s only headache at home.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2025
Social media trends come and go, but one craze that appears to have outstayed its welcome is the desire to mock millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996).
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Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
But at two hours, Islands outstays its welcome, allowing much of the tension to leak out of it in a protracted concluding stretch.
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David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
There are infinite ways for SNL to be unbearable: a sketch outstays its welcome, the rookie featured player keeps flubbing his lines, the writers forgo jokes altogether and instead force us to listen to a bizarre piano ballad in an attempt to say something earnest about politics.
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Rebecca Jennings,
Vox,
13 Feb. 2025
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
Clocking in at a tidy 73 minutes, Good Boy never outstays its welcome, and the spooky goings-on lead to a climax when a ghostly black figure that has been haunting Indy finally, monstrously, appears to pull Todd to hell.
—
Laura Martin,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
Lexx reinvented itself each season, and Season 3 — set on the planets of Fire and Water — didn't outstay its welcome at 13 episodes.
—
Chris McMullen,
Space.com,
2 Aug. 2025
And at less than two hours with an intermission, the show doesn’t outstay its welcome.
—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
The overbearing Dawn, who has outstayed her welcome in what was supposed to be a temporary lockdown solution, is not Joe’s only headache at home.
—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2025
Social media trends come and go, but one craze that appears to have outstayed its welcome is the desire to mock millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996).
—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
But at two hours, Islands outstays its welcome, allowing much of the tension to leak out of it in a protracted concluding stretch.
—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
There are infinite ways for SNL to be unbearable: a sketch outstays its welcome, the rookie featured player keeps flubbing his lines, the writers forgo jokes altogether and instead force us to listen to a bizarre piano ballad in an attempt to say something earnest about politics.
—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vox,
13 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outstay
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Oh, and that’s not counting a potential $70,000 in citation revenue from drivers who overstay their time.
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But the story takes care not to overstay its welcome.
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Factories that take four years to build need a policy that outlasts a single term.
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Langeliers received a total of 2,077,756 votes in Phase 1, outlasting Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk and his team’s massive voting bloc.
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The town’s predicament highlights the limits of any ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, and the lingering hardship faced by residents whose lives have been upended by years of conflict.
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Robertson answered any lingering questions about his game with his franchise-caliber play.
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What To Do About It The answer, in principle, is the same as for any asset meant to outlive its owner.
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Americans are outliving their retirement With concerns about Security growing there's a new report showing that people are likely to outlive their savings in 41 states.
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“Outstay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outstay. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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