subsistence
Example Sentences
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Together, these remains point to a balanced subsistence strategy that combined fishing, hunting, gathering, and farming.
From Science Daily
In the South, entire families worked long hours for subsistence wages in company-owned villages.
The £1.6m in crew costs includes salary, travel, subsistence, pension and national insurance contributions but excludes training.
From BBC
As droughts scorch their soil and storms strike with a vengeance, subsistence farmers are turning to a scrappy, throw-everything-at-the-wall array of innovations to make ends meet.
From New York Times
Their scrappy, throw-everything-at-the-wall array of innovations is multiplied by small subsistence farmers elsewhere in the world.
From New York Times
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