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outlived

verb

Past of outlive

Exact(60)

Later both regretted the affair, which outlived the conference by only an awkward encounter or two.

(It's actually not too bad, that recalibration of triumph: these days, if I open the fridge and see that I've somehow outlived the expiry date on a pack of bacon, I punch the air victoriously).

The truth appears to be that Page 3 has outlived its editorial purpose, which is how it should be.

Less easy to dismiss are those who insist the movement has outlived its usefulness.

The series three announcement means that it might now be time to consign Broadchurch to the bin marked shows that unnecessarily outlived their welcome.

He has swum against the tide too and that single-mindedness, that clarity, has carried him: here is a man who admits to having felt under threat of extinction but who ultimately has outlived them all.

It has outlived its purpose.

Abdulbaset al-Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber, has now outlived the three months the government thought he had left when it released him from prison on compassionate grounds.

The mere possibility could incite skittish investors to dump their holdings, driving up interest rates.The debt ceiling long ago outlived its usefulness.

Lawrence Lowell, the president of Harvard, argued that "institutions are rarely murdered; they meet their end by suicide…They die because they have outlived their usefulness, or fail to do the work that the world wants done".

From Lucie's multiple pregnancies and miscarriages, only one of her six children outlived her.In comparison, Ms Fraser's book is a lesser, though still entertaining, work.

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