eke
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He and the rest have been left to try eke out a living doing "any kind of work, like an Uber driver," he said, standing outside the factory gates.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
At once straight-faced, sacrilegious and scatological, “Team America” needed nine tries to eke past the MPAA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
I still think Scotland will eke out the win, but how will Steve Clarke go about it?
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Kudryashev’s short stint last year in the vanguard of Russia’s army offers a glimpse of the tactics that Russia is employing to eke out battlefield advances in Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
They shot rabbits and peeled bark for soup to eke out their scarce provisions.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
Finding a fresh plot twist is the only way it ekes out a draw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
Oumar Cisse used to lead tours of Djenne, an ancient, fabled city in central Mali known for its towering mud-brick mosque, but he now ekes out a living driving an old motorcycle taxi in Bamako.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Today the 70-year-old struggles with respiratory illness and ekes out a living ferrying people and parcels on his scooter.
From Reuters ● Dec. 16, 2022
Instead of bleating big themes, it ekes feeling from repression in telling the story of a character who does the same.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
They rested on a bench on one of those small triangles of breathing-space which the city ekes out now and then; mill ends of land parcels.
From Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day by Benjamin A. Heydrick
The Nasdaq composite eked out a gain of 0.7%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The Dodgers eked across a run in the third inning on a Freddie Freeman groundout with runners on second and third.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
The millennial sex therapist eked out a narrow win in the Democratic primary election in March and will advance to a runoff with the second-place finisher, sheriff’s deputy Johnny Garcia, on Tuesday.
From Slate ● May 22, 2026
The S&P 500 eked out a 0.1% gain today and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.2%—small but mighty gains considering both indexes closed at record highs.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
A few eked out a precarious existence on the ground and survived.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
He was ultimately the only plausible option for voters worried that Hong’s controversies risked blowing the general election and ended up eking it out by less than half a percentage point.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
Staff at Softstar Shoes in Oregon have discovered a newfound enthusiasm for eking out resources and growing profits.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Hoan worked from the same slab of concrete for a decade, eking out a modest living hawking colourful bouquets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
The Hurricanes missed yet another kick in the third quarter before eking out a 10-3 lead with under two minutes to play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Indeed, the process of eking out those new notes took so long that we don’t even know in which century it happened.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
