SUBSIST Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

subsist

verb

səb-ˈsist

Definition of subsist

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 Cubans were subsisting, and working in industries outright owned by Americans. — Mo Rocca, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026 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. — 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 See All Example Sentences for subsist

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Before the bombing, Berezovska was living as a refugee in Hofheim, a small town near Frankfurt in Germany.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
The combination regimen met the main study goal of significantly extending the time patients lived without their melanoma returning, compared with Keytruda alone.

— Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of live

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There are steps everywhere, apart from the restaurant, and access on and off the boats can be a bit tricky.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
According to the District Attorney’s Office, there were 571 parole hearings scheduled last year for people sentenced in San Diego to life in prison.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026

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Within a mind-spinning eight months, Zori Timeless Hotel was born, cleverly converted from the old pension into four luxurious residences within the confines of strict planning regulations that forced them to use the existing space.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
Those ideas say some people are superior to others, and the inequality that exists in the world around us reflects those innate differences, and inequality is a good thing, and a necessary thing, and the only real way to organize social life.

— John Blake, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026

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