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as in survives
to last longer than
these running shoes have outworn any others that I have ever bought
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as in wears
to use up all the physical energy of
a daily grind that would outwear anybody
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Verb
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The Creature, who longs for death, attempts to blow itself up with that dynamite, but survives the blast.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Jan. 2026 -
Government agencies and businesses that invest in this training, and that insist every critical number survives a deterministic check, will capture AI's benefits without stumbling into its blind spots.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Jan. 2026
Verb
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No law enforcement professional wears a mask.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Jan. 2026
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In the video, Kravitz wears a white minidress and black flats, while Styles is dressed down in jeans and a blue jacket.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
13 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
Verb
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Storrie plays a young inmate in the film who attacks and ultimately kills Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) in Arkham Asylum.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
14 Jan. 2026
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Statewide in California, the population of between 50 and 70 wolves were responsible for 175 livestock kills between January and October of last year, state data show.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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But her work is about building infrastructure that outlasts political cycles and social media backlash.—
Essence,
Essence,
10 Nov. 2025
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Every artist, athlete, or entrepreneur who outlasts is following a pure thread of desire.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
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Additional motorsport-style heave dampers act to suppress squat and dive, giving the bespoke Pirelli Trofeo R tires a fighting chance of relaying 1,257 ft lbs of torque to the road.—
Tim Pitt,
Robb Report,
6 Aug. 2025
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The denial exhausts the city’s legal options for the 2022 ballot measure, known as Measure C.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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Ella has shades of Holly Hunter's intense, workaholic producer Jane from Brooks' 1987 masterpiece Broadcast News, the smartest person in any room who both exhausts and enchants everyone around her.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
12 Dec. 2025
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“Outwears.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outwears. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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