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Per capita disposable income in cities is less than $700 a month, while in the countryside as many as several hundred million people subsist on just a few dollars each day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Those who subsist on the fringes of the Vegas tourism orbit are aware that they are in a funk but are nonetheless powerless to fix it.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

Many of them eat only one meal a day and subsist on high energy biscuits given by the charity, she said.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

Like many American athletes, Dershwitz cannot subsist on the stipends and bonuses he receives from USA Fencing and the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

If not, he reasoned, the custom would certainly have died, for no craving for wealth or immortality could be so great, he felt, as to subsist on the sorrow of children.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The homegrown awards show subsists entirely on ticket sales, which range from $20 to $40, depending on the time of purchase — and the occasional donation — and has never turned a profit, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

This could affect the bird's ability to survive in tidal marshes, where it subsists on saltwater and salty crustaceans, something freshwater birds are ill-adapted to.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024

He is unemployed and subsists on the corn and beans he grows.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 20, 2023

U.S. particle physics subsists on a little more than $1 billion per year, primarily from the National Science Foundation and the DOE’s Office of Science.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2022

The food this family subsists on is like nothing I’ve ever eaten before.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Through much of U.S. history, the federal government subsisted on the proceeds generated by tariffs and on the tax on whiskey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Father and daughter subsisted on a few real estate investments that allowed him “to pay the bills.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

In the end the team - who subsisted on water, chocolate and sattu, a mixture of chickpea, barley and wheat flour - retrieved four bodies.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024

Muralug Island itself, the island nearest Australia, was dry, marginal for agriculture, and supported only a small human population, which subsisted mainly on seafood, wild yams, and mangrove fruits.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Maekar recoils at the thought of a child of royal birth subsisting on salted beef.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

Less than two years ago, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a penal colony in Russia, sewing uniforms for the Russian military and subsisting on spoiled food.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

Chavez, who had lost 35 pounds after subsisting only on water, was too weak to speak.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

After days of subsisting on tea, bread and onions, Abu Speitan said he was feeling dehydrated and exhausted.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

As if merely subsisting according to his self-imposed rules weren’t strenuous enough, Rosellini also exercised compulsively whenever he wasn’t occupied with foraging.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer