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Recent Examples of hand-to-mouth The brand recommends using them in tandem with NRTs to satiate the hand-to-mouth habit of vaping. Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024 Teach your children how to avoid hand-to-mouth behaviors. Steffini Stalos, Verywell Health, 3 Oct. 2024 The motive can range from adolescent rebellion to adult thrill-seeking to hand-to-mouth poverty. Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024 Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Clean Up the Seine While many athletes live hand-to-mouth, the IOC enjoys an opulent existence. Jules Boykoff, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024 My dad lived very hand-to-mouth, and my mum used to buy a lot through catalogues and got herself into some bad debt. R29 Team, refinery29.com, 8 May 2024 The casting Ripley begins with Tom living hand-to-mouth in New York City through small cons until he’s hired to convince wayward shipbuilding heir Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to leave his extended Italian holiday painting mediocre still lifes and return home to his frustrated family. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 6 June 2024 Tom, a single man, lives a hand-to-mouth existence in New York with a male roommate who is, ahem, a window dresser. Mark Harris, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2024 Since then, the World Service has been financed on a hand-to-mouth basis through occasional installments of state funding. Simon J. Potter, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand-to-mouth
Adjective
  • The shame was that the crowd watching on from the sidelines in Saudi was sparse.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Enemy variety is sparse on the first few islands, and Mario and Luigi have a limited number of abilities to use in battle.
    Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • In the fall, bears must consume around 20,000 calories daily to store enough fat to survive the winter months, when food is scarce.
    John Leos, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Dinner or lunch is a better option for glamorous people watching, but be sure to plan ahead since table spots are scarce all year round.
    Alexandra Zagalsky, theweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Trump, for one thing, had a favorable set of issues behind him and the Republican Party: Biden had seen poor favorability and approval ratings throughout his term in office, despite scoring several legislative wins, including a bipartisan infrastructure deal that had previously eluded Trump.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Something begins in disrepair, disarray, poor shape.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024

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“Hand-to-mouth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand-to-mouth. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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