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
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
In fact, many traditional northern hunter–gatherers such as the Inuit subsisted mostly on animal foods.
—ArsTechnica, 28 July 2025
From here on out, Cam is pretty much tripping balls every day for the rest of his life, subsisting for the first few weeks on a bulk purchase from Lump.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
Many scenes in the film are spoken in the local language and the village, as well as the mountainous, rugged landscape that surrounds it, are portrayed as subsisting at the edge between wilderness and civilization.
—Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
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Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Sep. 2025
In fact, many traditional northern hunter–gatherers such as the Inuit subsisted mostly on animal foods.
—ArsTechnica, 28 July 2025
From here on out, Cam is pretty much tripping balls every day for the rest of his life, subsisting for the first few weeks on a bulk purchase from Lump.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
Many scenes in the film are spoken in the local language and the village, as well as the mountainous, rugged landscape that surrounds it, are portrayed as subsisting at the edge between wilderness and civilization.
—Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subsist
Verb
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The majority of Detroit-area Jewish residents live there.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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Moïse, who said she was born and raised in Haiti and had lived at the family home since 2015, described having as many as 30 to 50 guards around the home at all times.—
Tania Francois,
CBS News,
13 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Blume made growing up less alienating for her readers, but there were limits to her project of destigmatization.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2026
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Some may say the Horns underachieved in 2026 but there are almost a boatload of teams who would love to be them at this moment.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Mar. 2026
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The lack of oil has exacerbated the existing problems with Cuba’s crumbling electrical grid and led to nearly constant blackouts all over the island.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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The operation lasted two and a half hours and the surgical team had to cut around existing scar tissue and avoid her bladder.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Subsist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subsist. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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