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    Game was scarce, forcing Franklin and his men to subsist on lichens scraped from boulders, singed deer hide, scavenged animal bones, their own boot leather, and finally one another's flesh.  (source)
    subsist = survive
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    As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves.  (source)
    subsists = survives
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    Until the snafu was straightened out, he had to subsist on candy bars from Red Cross nurses.†  (source)
    subsist = survive
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    Just the whisper of an unwillingness to subsist on scraps offered by others.†  (source)
    subsist = survive
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    Their mounts subsisted on the tough brown devilgrass that grew in clumps at the base of rocks and dead trees.†  (source)
    subsisted = survived
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    Since they'd rescued him from the bronze jar in Rome, Nico had slept very little and eaten even less, as if he were still subsisting on those emergency pomegranate seeds from the Underworld.†  (source)
    subsisting = surviving
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    THE FOOD THIS FAMILY SUBSISTS ON IS LIKE NOTHING I'VE EVER eaten before.†  (source)
    SUBSISTS = survives
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    But she was haunted by worries too, revolving around dependence, worries that in going abroad and leaving their country she and Saeed and Saeed's father might be at the mercy of strangers, subsistent on handouts, caged in pens like vermin.†  (source)
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    Oppos'd to naught, this clumsy world, The something—it subsisteth still; Not yet is it to ruin hurl'd, Despite the efforts of my will.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She subsisteth" in older English, today we say "She subsists."
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    There was a time when I had willpower, when I could run 10k before breakfast and subsist for weeks on thirteen hundred calories a day.†  (source)
    subsist = survive
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    A friend of the family, Ann Basophy, who was born in the same small farm village, recalled that Vasil and Martha Strenk subsisted in a one-room house with a dirt floor, along with Vasil's parents and grandparents.†  (source)
    subsisted = survived
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    They were a society of indigents subsisting without heat, lights or water.†  (source)
    subsisting = surviving
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    But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.†  (source)
    subsists = survives
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