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A woman who limits her exercise to Pilates will still have to subsist on very little food to get the delicate, bone-thin look these men conjure with the “Pilates girl” image.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

When you spent all your savings to move to London, how did you subsist as a young girl with no English in a foreign land?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Those who subsist on the fringes of the Vegas tourism orbit are aware that they are in a funk but are nonetheless powerless to fix it.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

Yet the text’s unhurried recollections reflect its content: “Homework” feels leisurely as if to reflect the functional, socialist-adjacent government that allows its characters to subsist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

Among other problems, most had small seeds—imagine trying to feed a family on sesame seeds, and you have some idea of what it would have been like to subsist on maygrass.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The homegrown awards show subsists entirely on ticket sales, which range from $20 to $40, depending on the time of purchase — and the occasional donation — and has never turned a profit, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

This could affect the bird's ability to survive in tidal marshes, where it subsists on saltwater and salty crustaceans, something freshwater birds are ill-adapted to.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024

The dark brown-and-tan-colored snake, named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi, reaches up to 16 inches long, subsists on lizards and frogs, and is considered harmless to human beings.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 16, 2023

Thus she subsists on the blood of animals, a solution that becomes increasingly unworkable as her hunger increases.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

The food this family subsists on is like nothing I’ve ever eaten before.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

The pet-food company Evermore is extolling the benefits of sous vide–cooked turkey, lamb, chicken and beef; the founders are so passionate about these “human grade” recipes that they personally subsisted on them for 31 days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

The population subsisted on an average of 1,200 calories a day.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025

Instead, his family largely subsisted on bread, he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024

Robert started to reassure her, asserting that he had known a lady who had subsisted upon nougat during the entire—but seeing the color mount into Mrs. Pontellier’s face he checked himself and changed the subject.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Aguilar, who has two young daughters, says his family is subsisting on food banks and relies on donations for rent.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

There were stories of athletes living in their cars and subsisting on food stamps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

Less than two years ago, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a penal colony in Russia, sewing uniforms for the Russian military and subsisting on spoiled food.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

After days of subsisting on tea, bread and onions, Abu Speitan said he was feeling dehydrated and exhausted.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

The idea of subsisting on greenery alone — of prolonging that full-yet-empty stabbing sensation in my stomach — was totally unappealing, but the leaves would keep me alive.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer