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
The Lakers instead tried to subsist on Luka Doncic, who scored 43 points, the third-most for a Laker in a season opener and the most since Kobe Bryant’s 45 in 2007.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
When you subsist on crumbs for long enough, you learn to make a meal out of them.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 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
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