bare existence
Example Sentences
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Those who escaped al-Shabab now cling to a bare existence.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
In retrospect, I wasn’t so much contemptuous as I was afraid, afraid of what their bare existence said about me and my place in the world.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2018
Even with survivors scratching out a bare existence, would there forever after be harsh limits to the range of human hopes?
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2012
It is the kingdom of microbes, of tiny bacteria and other microscopic organisms that in some Antarctic regions eke out a bare existence, and in others are almost flourishing.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2010
But it is none the less true that if we could strip any psychical existence of all its qualities except bare existence, there would be nothing left, not even existence, for our intelligence....
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
