outlive your usefulness

Examples of outlived

outlived

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Their books seemed to indicate that ' sociological ' theories may have, at least in part, outlived their usefulness.
We see that the bounds on i and o indicate that they are not constrained to be outlived by any other regions.
This was the only time in the sample that an economic slowdown outlived the end of a recession.
It has outlived its historical time and outlasted its political purpose.
This book and its conclusions form a necessary and welcome revision to an older historiography which has in many ways outlived its usefulness.
The commentaries have shown that the concept of internalization continues to fascinate many, while others think it might have outlived its usefulness.
Some no longer knew anyone of their own age, having outlived all their contemporaries.
Essentialist categories of male and female have long outlived their potential to contribute to a dynamic and evolving study of gender.
But, if the weaknesses of the jobber system had become apparent by 1918, it was far from clear that it had outlived its use.
Both also, through their sheer physical tenacity, outlived most of their favourites and advisers and in a sense outlived their own times.
Such a situation could arise when, for example, a pensioner outlived his successor, and the latter's widow also became entitled to a pension.
The historical traditions of decentralism and regional identity which outlived the advent of the large-scale nation state have proved very diverse.
And this only because we are old, because we have outlived all our friends.
This purpose outlived the immediate phase of persecution.
These institutions then outlived the social structures that created them and maintained differences in self-motivated political participation decades after their creation.
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