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
Did Ancient Mongolians Only Eat Blood? Aside from blood sausages, also known as blood pudding in some areas, Mongolians likely subsisted mostly on meat and dairy products from their herds.
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Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2024
Studies of the remains of our forebears, as well as observations of living primates and modern-day hunter-gatherers, refute the idea that humans evolved to subsist primarily on animals.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
Residents were not allowed to eat any meat, vegetables, or dairy and subsisted primarily off of rice pudding and peanut butter.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 June 2024
Author: Alexander Hamilton To the People of the State of New York:
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 30 May 2024
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Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2024
Studies of the remains of our forebears, as well as observations of living primates and modern-day hunter-gatherers, refute the idea that humans evolved to subsist primarily on animals.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
Residents were not allowed to eat any meat, vegetables, or dairy and subsisted primarily off of rice pudding and peanut butter.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 June 2024
Author: Alexander Hamilton To the People of the State of New York:
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 30 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subsist
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California is a living laboratory for the observation that demography is destiny, first uttered by the 19th century French philosopher Auguste Comte.—
Dan Walters,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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But inside one of the units police discovered the unimaginable: children living alone among garbage, human waste and mold, playing video games and living off food that was dropped off.—
Gina Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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With fentanyl, there is only a short window of time to intervene and save a person’s life during an overdose.—
Moises Velasquez-Manoff Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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There is a broken down vehicle on Eastern Avenue between Raytown Road and I-435 South.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
16 Feb. 2025
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The brain, desperate for visual input, starts hallucinating lights and shapes that don’t exist.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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But other platforms, such as Chaat, still exist, and have a similar functionality.—
Katie Ebner-Landy,
The New Yorker,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Subsist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subsist. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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