as in livings
a way of earning money in order to live
Many fishermen believe that the new regulations threaten their livelihoods.
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Recent Examples of livelihoods
The threat of more efficient, devaluing production models to the livelihoods of artisans is historically clear.
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Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
Now the pair are traveling the world, talking about how cooperation and a new system of catch shares saved their livelihoods.
—Dan Morrison, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Agencies such as Creative Artists Agency have warned clients that Sora poses a significant risk to their work and livelihoods.
—Gerard Scimeca, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
The consequences are stark for local people who rely on the rivers for food, medicine, livelihoods and transport, said André Guimarães, executive director of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, a nonprofit organization.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Many of them fled to the cities from their rural, coastal home villages because the increasing frequency of disasters like floods, riverbank erosion and cyclones, also due to climate change, made their already fragile livelihoods untenable.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
Boosting consumer spending and livelihoods gets little more than lip service in the communiqué that followed the plenum at which the five-year plan was mapped out.
—Shaoyu Yuan, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2025
Following the disaster, officials ordered Sino-Metals, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-run China Nonferrous Metals Industry Group, to compensate affected farmers and residents whose livelihoods were devastated.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Although only a handful of infections had been reported by then, the shutdown of factories and offices put the livelihoods of millions at risk.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
Now the pair are traveling the world, talking about how cooperation and a new system of catch shares saved their livelihoods.
—Dan Morrison, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Agencies such as Creative Artists Agency have warned clients that Sora poses a significant risk to their work and livelihoods.
—Gerard Scimeca, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
The consequences are stark for local people who rely on the rivers for food, medicine, livelihoods and transport, said André Guimarães, executive director of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, a nonprofit organization.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Many of them fled to the cities from their rural, coastal home villages because the increasing frequency of disasters like floods, riverbank erosion and cyclones, also due to climate change, made their already fragile livelihoods untenable.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
Boosting consumer spending and livelihoods gets little more than lip service in the communiqué that followed the plenum at which the five-year plan was mapped out.
—Shaoyu Yuan, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2025
Following the disaster, officials ordered Sino-Metals, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-run China Nonferrous Metals Industry Group, to compensate affected farmers and residents whose livelihoods were devastated.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Although only a handful of infections had been reported by then, the shutdown of factories and offices put the livelihoods of millions at risk.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for livelihoods
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Last April, Döpfner closed the deal to spin off his company’s lucrative German classified advertising businesses and bought out his partner, the private equity firm KKR.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Plumber, pipefitter and steamfitter These workers install and repair the systems that move water, gas, chemicals and steam in homes and businesses.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Professional sports are rapacious for-profit enterprises that produce wildly entertaining, sometimes violent, and sometimes inspiring athletic competition.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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Even prior to the coup, the system was set up such that all proceeds from sales by state-enterprises like MTE were deposited into the Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank’s roughly 50 accounts in corresponding banks across the world.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Most likely, DePodesta will have to make some trades to accomplish this.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
7 Nov. 2025
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Hedge Funds ⬆ Wall Street brokered trades letting hedge funds buy tariff refund rights at 20-40 cents on the dollar.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In response, some advocates have called for the government to support the industry — which accounted for around 1% of the US workforce in the latest census — with hundreds of thousands losing their jobs in recent years.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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Congress now appears poised to reopen the government and restart pay ‒ including back pay ‒ for controllers, some of whom took second jobs during the shutdown.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Livelihoods.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/livelihoods. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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