provide a living
Example Sentences
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Although they provide a living for thousands of people, agriculture and tourism account for relatively small parts of both the Israeli or Palestinian economies.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2024
No population alive today is a perfect model of the past, but groups like the Hadza, who continue these traditions, provide a living example of how these systems work.
From Scientific American • Dec. 13, 2022
A job should, at the very least, provide a living wage, safe working conditions, sick leave, and health and disability insurance, said Jay Spence, psychologist and chief product officer at Uprise Health in Irvine, Calif.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2022
It requires a stretch of the imagination to think that all 50 states are going to somehow get enough money together to provide a living wage to child care workers.
From Slate • Nov. 30, 2021
Here the hateful fatality stands revealed, aspera fata, which ruins the producer to provide a living for the drone; here we see the stupid and ferocious law that sacrifices the worker for the idler's benefit.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander