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bare existence
noun as in poverty line
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Nash wrote for bare existence—to use his own words, ‘contending with the cold, and conversing with scarcity.’
You and bare existence—the two things I saved from the wreck.
For a time it was a struggle for bare existence, and the little colony was brought very near to extinction.
But meanwhile the once proud kingdom of Assyria had been contending for bare existence.
I ask of life no more than a bare existence and that, a thousand times that, is mine, by the benevolence of Mr. Early.
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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bare existence, such as: breadline, hand-to-mouth existence, mere existence, pauperism, poverty trap, and subsistence level.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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