subsist
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When you spent all your savings to move to London, how did you subsist as a young girl with no English in a foreign land?
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 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
When you subsist on crumbs for long enough, you learn to make a meal out of them.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025
Among other problems, most had small seeds—imagine trying to feed a family on sesame seeds, and you have some idea of what it would have been like to subsist on maygrass.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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