survive

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balancing act
be left holding the babyidiom
bear up
bite
bite off more than you can chewidiom
cut
head
hold
juggle
juggling
keep body and soul togetheridiom
keep your head above wateridiom
keep/hold your end upidiom
manage
roll
scrape through (something)
sink or swimidiom
stretch to something
stride
subsistence

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Life and living

subsist | American Dictionary

subsist
verb[ I ]
us/səbˈsɪst/
to obtain enough food or money to stay alive:
These people subsist on rice, beans, fruits, and vegetables.

Examples of subsist

subsist
The expectation to subsist through the use of one's natural assets is therefore a reasonable expectation.
This applies not just to everything that subsists, but to all order, every law, and every foundation of something's being true and good.
Certainly the latter, especially when too abstract, have difficulty in triggering processes of imagination, and often subsist quite apart from them.
For all intents and purposes, what constituted the subsistence economy operated as a closed economy, communities subsisting on what they had to hand.
The high frequency of caries likely suggests that these individuals were subsisting on a mixed diet.
As a result, linear representations of base-superstructure relations had subsisted in the literature, generating more slogans than informed analysis.
They are now so poor that they are starving, frequently subsisting on soup made of fatback boiled in water.
This work is unfortunately lost, and all that remains of it are the traces which subsist in other treatises in which it has been used.
But it does mean that the acquisition of private property must not interfere with the rights of individuals to subsist.
Private ownership could persist and inequalities would subsist, but man, and especially woman, would be free to fulfil their natures.
They did so specifically because, having lost their land and employment, they sought khedivial charity to enable them and their families to subsist.
Rather than the earth serving as a shelter or incubator for life, life here subsists under constant and almost completely uncontrollable threat from the outside.
They were village farmers, living in palisaded towns and subsisting largely on the corn, squash, and beans raised by the women in communal gardens.
It could be more lucrative to subsist by robbery than to seek work.
The expectation to subsist through the use of one's natural assets is equally reasonable.
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