bare subsistence
Example Sentences
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt argued for wages that would provide workers with “more than a bare subsistence level. I mean the wages of a decent living.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
He and his two married sons now share three tents between them, but he described life there as bare subsistence, with no heating and little health care.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2020
In the beginning, many families lived in crude log shelters and scratched a bare subsistence from tiny corn patches.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
For my father’s family, the dreams fulfilled by this house had meant a climb from bare subsistence to the middle.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2016
Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
