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Former residents told AFP earlier this year that remaining residents were starving, forced to hunt pigeons or subsist on whatever they had in their garden.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

In the wild, wolf packs primarily subsist on wild ungulates - hoofed, typically herbivorous, animals such as deer, cows and pigs.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

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

If not, he reasoned, the custom would certainly have died, for no craving for wealth or immortality could be so great, he felt, as to subsist on the sorrow of children.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

His cheeks are so hollowed and pitted, he looks like he subsists entirely on turnips.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

It introduces us to Chinese villagers 10,000 years ago who subsisted on a mélange of acorns, berries, deer and pigs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

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

Even Oliver, a man who long subsisted on dips, has nothing bad to say.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

“The main thing is just not to starve to death,” one video blogger advised in a post detailing how she subsisted on snack samples and free meals from temples and student canteens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

He had, since the whipping, seemed in a perpetual irritation, glowering around the rooms, leaving company often, saying he wished to ascertain whether matter still subsisted in his chamber.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

The men ran out of food, subsisting on what they scrounged up: vitamins pills and pancake mix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025

Less than two years ago, 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 3, 2024

So far, they had been subsisting on snacks sent through a narrower pipe inserted earlier.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 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