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Calls for steps to stimulate domestic consumption went largely unanswered as a surge in exports helped it to eke out sufficient growth to meet its official target for the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Analysts had predicted the company would go there for the first time since 2012, but it managed to eke out $784 million—a precipitous drop from the previous quarter’s $12.4 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

At once straight-faced, sacrilegious and scatological, “Team America” needed nine tries to eke past the MPAA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

I still think Scotland will eke out the win, but how will Steve Clarke go about it?

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Rumor had it that they had booked passage on a ship to America, where they planned to open a Russian tea room, perhaps in New York City, and eke out a living that way.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Lori, who might be every bit as technically gifted as Julian, ekes out a living serving egg rolls in a food truck while sharing a walk-up loft with three other struggling painters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Once juggling multiple odd jobs, Helal Uddin now ekes out a living running a food cart.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

In the battle of Barbenheimer, Gerwig’s comedy ekes out a victory over “Oppenheimer,” proving that some fights can be finished with no nuclear escalation whatsoever.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

Today the 70-year-old struggles with respiratory illness and ekes out a living ferrying people and parcels on his scooter.

From Reuters ● Dec. 16, 2022

Down again through cultivated lands, corn and clover, flax and beet, and all the various crops with which the industrious German yeoman ekes out his little patch of soil.

From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

The stock has eked out a 6.2% gain so far this year, as some investors still worry about deeper pressures on consumers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

A political newcomer, Marx eked out his victory in a three-way race by less than 2,500 votes out of more than 520,000 cast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

And unlike past editions when they often gritted their teeth and only eked through, they’ve done it this time with a game to spare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The millennial sex therapist eked out a narrow win in the Democratic primary election in March and will advance to a runoff with the second-place finisher, sheriff’s deputy Johnny Garcia, on Tuesday.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

They must remain hidden, and give the humans no hint that they were here, or that, unthinkably, five abominations had survived the Carnage and eked out an existence here for fifteen years.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

As a young man, Francisco traversed it on horseback, eking out a living by draining resin from the towering pines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

He was ultimately the only plausible option for voters worried that Hong’s controversies risked blowing the general election and ended up eking it out by less than half a percentage point.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026

Hoan worked from the same slab of concrete for a decade, eking out a modest living hawking colourful bouquets.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Hurricanes missed yet another kick in the third quarter before eking out a 10-3 lead with under two minutes to play.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

Indeed, the process of eking out those new notes took so long that we don’t even know in which century it happened.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall