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as in to overstay
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as in to outlast
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Recent Examples of outstay
Social media trends come and go, but one craze that appears to have outstayed its welcome is the desire to mock millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996).
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
But at two hours, Islands outstays its welcome, allowing much of the tension to leak out of it in a protracted concluding stretch.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 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, 13 Feb. 2025
But the skyrocketing housing costs mean that to some countries, foreigners have outstayed their welcome.
—Jason Lalljee, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
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
Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
But at two hours, Islands outstays its welcome, allowing much of the tension to leak out of it in a protracted concluding stretch.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 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, 13 Feb. 2025
But the skyrocketing housing costs mean that to some countries, foreigners have outstayed their welcome.
—Jason Lalljee, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outstay
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Others overstay tourist visas, seek asylum or have some form of temporary status.—
Gisela Salomon,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Apr. 2025
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The Times of India reported that people are known to enter Saudi Arabia on visitor or Umrah visas and then overstay in order to perform Hajj without registering officially.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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And though a few dozen people left the dinner early to catch the end or start of various performances, which included Charli XCX and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, about half of the long table lingered after dessert to continue chatting with their tablemates.—
Ye Fan,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Still, memories of the show lingered in a few significant minds: both Stephen Sondheim and Fred Ebb felt its influence.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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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
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That pepper spray is among the objects that have outlived Vincent.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Outstay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outstay. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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