subsist
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As Boy Scouts, the twins learned to survive in the wilderness, or at least subsist on oatmeal for two days as they did once after running out of other food.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
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
Yet the text’s unhurried recollections reflect its content: “Homework” feels leisurely as if to reflect the functional, socialist-adjacent government that allows its characters to subsist.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 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
There was a time when I had willpower, when I could run 10k before breakfast and subsist for weeks on thirteen hundred calories a day.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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