subsist

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Per capita disposable income in cities is less than $700 a month, while in the countryside as many as several hundred million people subsist on just a few dollars each day.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

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

When you subsist on crumbs for long enough, you learn to make a meal out of them.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025

Famine has already been declared in one area - many others subsist on the brink of starvation not knowing where their next meal will come from.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024

He would end his remarks, he said, by emphasising once again the friendly feelings that subsisted, and ought to subsist, between Animal Farm and its neighbours.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell