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survive

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Synonyms for outlive

to live, exist, or remain longer than

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Synonyms for outlive

live longer than

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But the poetry of despair will not outlive despair itself.
Summary: BEIRUT: Future Movement parliamentary bloc leader MP Fouad Siniora said over the weekend that political disputes among Lebanon's rival political groups would not come to an end soon but that despite the existing controversial issues, the country would outlive its political crises.
It can be hard when you outlive friends and loved ones but I always had my family around me."
Women continue to outlive men, and they frequently outlive the economic resources they or their spouses put aside for their retirement security.
Synopsis: A recent USA Today/Gallup poll shows that nearly half of Americans are worried they'll outlive their money when they retire, and about the same percentage are worried they'll have to retire later than they had originally planned.
"In the first five years of retirement, if people get caught in the sequence-of-return spiral, which is where they are withdrawing money when the market is moving down, they'll realize three or five years from now that in order for them to get back to the point they won't outlive their money, even at a 5% withdrawal, the stock market has to come in with something outrageous.
Government programs have a tendency to outlive their usefulness, to continue long after their original purpose has been accomplished.
However, half of the people who follow this advice may very well outlive their money.
These challenges include the fact that women outlive men by seven years (on average), women do not have the same salaries, retirement or pension plans that men have, and women on average spend 15% of their career out of the workforce due to life issues, such as raising children.
For example, humans outlive elephants, horses, and cows, and tortoises outliving humans.
Although most trees can outlive us--100 to 200 years is not unusual--they succumb to age, disease and insects, wind, rain, and drought.
Kochno amassed a legendary collection of dance art, apparently knew everybody and managed to outlive friend and foe alike.
Not only did the surviving stores that he worked on while working for Edward Armstrong in 1948 significantly outlive the more celebrated festival pavilion, but also as basic shelters they more fittingly express the lightness of touch that he sought in this contemporary application.