outstayed

past tense of outstay

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for outstayed
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Those questions only lingered after their third October, the two losses in Minnesota.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Aries fire burns away the residue of fear and doubt that may have lingered after the Virgo solar eclipse.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hart had a brilliant but too-short run; Godard outlived nearly all his contemporaries and became one of the world’s most important filmmakers.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
  • At 103 years old, the woman who first stepped into the story of the Black Dahlia murder would be the last to leave it, having outlived every other participant.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • According to videos, officers waited roughly 20 seconds before detaining people.
    Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The suit was actually dismissed in 2022 after Olguin ruled that Elden had waited too long to file a civil suit.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Outstayed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outstayed. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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