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And especially on circuits like this, it just allows you to eke out that little bit more on the brakes, get that little bit closer to the walls, and it's been a flawless weekend.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The company still caters to budget buyers with a line of subcompact SUVs, but builds them in South Korea where the company is able to eke out a profit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Calls for steps to stimulate domestic consumption went largely unanswered as a surge in exports helped it to eke out sufficient growth to meet its official target for the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

In the few years before forest recovers the plot, farmers can eke something out of the land.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Once juggling multiple odd jobs, Helal Uddin now ekes out a living running a food cart.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

For Ricardo, who ekes out a living as a motorcycle mechanic, the meaning outweighs the risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

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

That he does before surrendering to his psychological flaw: his inability to be content with whatever success he ekes out.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2022

The cashier of the Farmers' State Bank in the prairie town ekes out his small salary with the commissions he receives as agent for a few companies.

From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy

The Nasdaq composite eked out a gain of 0.7%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Tech declines weighed on the S&P 500, too, where eight of 11 sectors climbed, but the index eked out just a small gain of less than one point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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 boat shot forward and Washington narrowly eked out the West’s first IRA victory.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

As much as my spirits were lifted by eking out some breathing room, I was still deep in the hurt locker and ready for the day to end.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

He was methodically capable of eking out a win from a seemingly hopeless and delicate position.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady