as in to survive
to last longer than
tortoises will outlive most people, as they live to be over 100 years old
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Recent Examples of outlive
And the fictional one will outlive me.
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Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Vierstra has not developed ALS and is outliving many of his family members.
—Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
Taken to an extreme, an ever-evolving idea of retirement could outlive drastic institutional change, perhaps enduring longer than the institutions of American democracy or beyond climate disaster.
—Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
That work has outlived much of the Black Lives Matter movement.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026
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Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Vierstra has not developed ALS and is outliving many of his family members.
—Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
Taken to an extreme, an ever-evolving idea of retirement could outlive drastic institutional change, perhaps enduring longer than the institutions of American democracy or beyond climate disaster.
—Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
That work has outlived much of the Black Lives Matter movement.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for outlive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outlive
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But without Dosunmu, the prospect of surviving this first-round series that is worthy of a West Finals matchup would be nonexistent.—
Sam Amick,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Baseball regional winners included Orangewood Christian, Deltona Trinity, and TFA, which scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 7th to survive.—
Steve Gorches,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Apr. 2026
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Few expected the venture to outlast Ellison’s willingness to bankroll it.—
G.W. Allen,
Robb Report,
26 Apr. 2026
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Ozzy, Joe, Tiff and Jonathan agree to the bet, so Probst only had to outlast one of them.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Outlive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outlive. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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