subsist

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

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times

Back before California was settled by Europeans and others, the Miwok and Nisenan subsisted on a hunter-gatherer diet of acorns, venison, salmon, pine nuts, elderberries, and other berries and plants.

From Los Angeles Times

The only survivor is his younger sister, Nezuko, who has been turned into an oni, a carnivorous demon who usually subsists on a diet of humans and is averse to sunlight.

From Los Angeles Times

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