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Recent Examples of sustenance
In recent decades, as the lake shrank and grew saltier than the ocean, nearly all the fish have died and the migratory birds that relied on them for sustenance have become scarce.
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Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Living in poverty, the same Dalits often stripped down and ate those deceased animals for sustenance.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
And vegans are ethical bottom feeders compared with fruitarians, who don’t even kill plants for their sustenance.
—David G. Allan, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
The disaster soon sees the high schoolers hunting each other for sustenance and sport in the punishing Canadian wilderness as their animalistic instincts (and maybe something even more sinister??) takes over.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
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Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Living in poverty, the same Dalits often stripped down and ate those deceased animals for sustenance.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
And vegans are ethical bottom feeders compared with fruitarians, who don’t even kill plants for their sustenance.
—David G. Allan, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
The disaster soon sees the high schoolers hunting each other for sustenance and sport in the punishing Canadian wilderness as their animalistic instincts (and maybe something even more sinister??) takes over.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Sustenance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sustenance. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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