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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Longevity Risk Longevity risk is the risk of outliving one's savings.
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Robert Cannon, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Related Articles His store on London’s Mount Street has outlived many of its neighbors, including Nicholas Kirkwood, Christopher Kane, Roksanda Ilinčić and Matchesfashion, and continues to serve as his window on the world.
—Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 21 Feb. 2025
Strategist, Neil Richardson, suggests that our digital shadows, the sum total of our online expressions and biometric traces, may soon outlive us, creating some kind of posthumous identity that transcends mortality.
—Tracey Follows, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
That pepper spray is among the objects that have outlived Vincent.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
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Robert Cannon, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Related Articles His store on London’s Mount Street has outlived many of its neighbors, including Nicholas Kirkwood, Christopher Kane, Roksanda Ilinčić and Matchesfashion, and continues to serve as his window on the world.
—Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 21 Feb. 2025
Strategist, Neil Richardson, suggests that our digital shadows, the sum total of our online expressions and biometric traces, may soon outlive us, creating some kind of posthumous identity that transcends mortality.
—Tracey Follows, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
That pepper spray is among the objects that have outlived Vincent.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
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Final Thoughts Every stage of the startup journey—fighting to survive, avoiding stagnation or navigating complexity—comes with its own set of challenges.—
Hope Horner,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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If young curlews cannot survive to reproductive age, conservationists fear there won’t be enough breeding birds to replenish the species’ numbers, which could cause the entire population to collapse.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Outlive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outlive. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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