subsist
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Subsist on beans and tap water so you can set aside money for retirement.
From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2020
Thus he was Deprived of his Intended Means of Earning a Living, and as he had no other Accomplishment he was Forced to Subsist on Charity.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
"Remember more, the Universal Cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws; And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist, not in the good of one, but ALL.'"
From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various
Subsist they cannot openly among us, and yet elude the eyes of the inquisitive: and, as to their hiding, no man pretends to have found any of them in a torpid state in the winter.
From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert
Subsist, sub-sist′, v.i. to have existence: to remain, continue, inhere: to have the means of living.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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