as in to live
to have life
a love that was as great as any that ever did subsist
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Recent Examples of subsist
Many of the dispossessed took to the woods and subsisted by slash-and-burn tillage, while others immigrated to Manchuria and Japan in search of jobs; the majority of Korean residents now in those areas are their descendants.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Mar. 2026
While tough shot-making is fun, prospects who subsist too heavily on that diet have a much higher failure rate as pros, where those shots go from hard to harder.
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John Hollinger,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
Until the money arrived, Haley had been trying to subsist largely on black coffee.
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Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
8 Nov. 2025
Dallas’ offense is swinging for the fences on every possession, subsisting almost exclusively on a diet of explosive plays.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Sep. 2025
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Mar. 2026
While tough shot-making is fun, prospects who subsist too heavily on that diet have a much higher failure rate as pros, where those shots go from hard to harder.
—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
Until the money arrived, Haley had been trying to subsist largely on black coffee.
—
Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
8 Nov. 2025
Dallas’ offense is swinging for the fences on every possession, subsisting almost exclusively on a diet of explosive plays.
—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Sep. 2025
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This is the Knob Creek farm, where Lincoln lived between the ages of 2 and 8, settling in 1811 after a land dispute forced them out of Sinking Spring.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee has lived at the home for more than four decades, according to the listing held by Keller Williams Everett's Jeannette Harpole.
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There were kids battling adults of the same age as their parents.
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Projections varied in the weeks leading up to the draft with no real consensus among draft analysts, but in the last 24 hours there were strong indications the Clippers would choose Wagler and the Nets would take Brown.
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Unlike Substrate, xLight’s strategy is to play nicely within the existing ecosystem, developing technology that can integrate into rather than displace ASML’s and TSMC’s existing architectures.
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There’s something really appealing about a band session just existing in its own form.
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