daily bread
Example Sentences
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Turkel’s book stressed that work was a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
Leo cited in particular "Ukraine, Gaza, Haiti, Afghanistan, Mali, the Central African Republic, Yemen and South Sudan", among other countries "where poverty has become the daily bread".
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
And that was a shock to him, because while he occasionally saw his mom light up, “it wasn’t our daily bread at all.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023
"This is my whole life. It's my daily bread."
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2022
His rosy face just now untucked itself, the whole moment marsupial, strangely wondrous that way, and I thought if I had tasted a family hunger all my life that this should be my daily bread.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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