as in lived
to have life
a love that was as great as any that ever did subsist
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Recent Examples of subsisted
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
Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subsisted
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The tours cover the estate’s architecture, its history with horse breeding and racing and the journey from enslavement to emancipation of the African Americans who lived there.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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Five minutes later, a 911 dispatcher sent police and paramedics toward the northwest Charlotte neighborhood off Rozelles Ferry Road, where Graves lived and where Watson had been fatally shot.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Apr. 2026
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So while there was nostalgia playing here for the first time as a big-leaguer, Stewart also understood the task at hand.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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On March 24, there was one sequence when Jackson won the first rep only for Shelton to come back with a one-handed catch for a touchdown.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Apr. 2026
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Such a zone existed pre-robot world.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Then, Guilarte traveled to Medellín, Colombia, to meet with Francisco Lopera, the pioneering Alzheimer’s researcher who uncovered a heritable form of the disease that existed in his home region.—
Brianna Abbott,
STAT,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Subsisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subsisted. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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