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as in to overstay
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as in to outlast
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Recent Examples of outstay
But the skyrocketing housing costs mean that to some countries, foreigners have outstayed their welcome.
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Jason Lalljee, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
There are infinite ways for SNL to be unbearable: a sketch outstays its welcome, the rookie featured player keeps flubbing his lines, the writers forgo jokes altogether and instead force us to listen to a bizarre piano ballad in an attempt to say something earnest about politics.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Defying gravity Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have long outstayed a planned eight days in low-Earth orbit after traveling to the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in June.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
The other thing that has really outstayed its welcome is Reynolds’s teasing gay banter.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 23 July 2024
Following a 2019 detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for allegedly outstaying his visa, the rapper is now able to travel internationally as a newly permanent citizen of the United States.
—Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2023
Available in theaters and on myriad streaming platforms, the international assembly may be a hit-and-miss affair, but never outstays its welcome.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
So what to do with this holiday guest that has outstayed its welcome?
—Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023
But unless the show can pull off an extreme pivot, it’s already outstayed its welcome.
—Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
Jason Lalljee, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
There are infinite ways for SNL to be unbearable: a sketch outstays its welcome, the rookie featured player keeps flubbing his lines, the writers forgo jokes altogether and instead force us to listen to a bizarre piano ballad in an attempt to say something earnest about politics.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Defying gravity Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have long outstayed a planned eight days in low-Earth orbit after traveling to the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in June.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
The other thing that has really outstayed its welcome is Reynolds’s teasing gay banter.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 23 July 2024
Following a 2019 detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for allegedly outstaying his visa, the rapper is now able to travel internationally as a newly permanent citizen of the United States.
—Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2023
Available in theaters and on myriad streaming platforms, the international assembly may be a hit-and-miss affair, but never outstays its welcome.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
So what to do with this holiday guest that has outstayed its welcome?
—Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023
But unless the show can pull off an extreme pivot, it’s already outstayed its welcome.
—Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outstay
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For more than 12 years, DACA has allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants who crossed into the U.S. illegally or overstayed their visas as minors to live and work in the U.S., without fear of deportation.—
Camilo Montoya-Galvez,
CBS News,
17 Jan. 2025
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The vast majority don't have a criminal conviction, and their individual situations can vary dramatically, from asylum-seekers who crossed the border to people who flew in on a tourist visa and overstayed.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA TODAY,
5 Jan. 2025
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Plan to linger over natural wine and a mix of market-fresh plates as the music slowly shifts, turning the venue into a bit more of a party as the day goes on.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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Although some investors were wary (and snobbery toward jukebox musicals still lingered), Swept Away managed to raise $14.5 million from investors.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2025
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The whole scene left a lot of folks, both in and out of Buckeye circles, thinking Day, in his sixth season, had outlived his usefulness on a campus that hadn’t tasted a title in a decade.—
Eddie Pells,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Because most people outlive, convert, or stop being able to afford term policies, about 99% of these policies never pay out.—
Cicely Jones,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Outstay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outstay. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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