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subsist

[suhb-sist] / səbˈsɪst /


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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

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

From Salon • Jun. 3, 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

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




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