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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

Many of them eat only one meal a day and subsist on high energy biscuits given by the charity, she said.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

Koalas, which subsist exclusively on eucalyptus leaves, happily munched their way into new territories.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

He is sleep-deprived because the lights in his cell are kept on all the time, and he subsists mostly on a diet of stale tortillas, he told them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

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

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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

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 ● Sep. 23, 2025

The Natufians were hunter-gatherers who subsisted on dozens of wild species, but they lived in permanent villages and devoted much of their time to the intensive gathering and processing of wild cereals.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

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

With Gaza’s economy decimated, few Palestinians have regular incomes and most are either depleting their savings or subsisting on handouts.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

It turns out that the players being labeled as amateurs and treated like normal students who are subsisting on ramen noodles were not the reason folks tuned in on Saturdays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023

The idea of any of them dying made him feel empty - like he was back in the giants’ bronze jar, alone in the dark, subsisting only on sour pomegranate seeds.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan