outlast
verb
out·last
ˌau̇t-ˈlast 
outlasted; outlasting; outlasts
: to last longer than : to continue to exist, be active, etc., longer than (someone or something)
BookCourt … withstood the 1999 opening of a Barnes & Noble store just a few blocks away and even outlasted the owners' marriage.—
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Examples of outlast in a Sentence
I truly hope this car will outlast our previous one
your work will probably outlast you
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Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 17 Dec. 2024
Horvath will keep it close, but Army will outlast Navy.
—Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 14 Dec. 2024
And, for a mid-weight medium wash that will outlast all trends, opt for Levi’s.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
Decreasing power, creative solutions The probes, which launched weeks apart in 1977, have long outlasted their original missions, designed to fly by the largest planets in our solar system over the course of four years.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Outlast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outlast. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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