as in to live
to have life
a love that was as great as any that ever did subsist
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Residents were not allowed to eat any meat, vegetables, or dairy and subsisted primarily off of rice pudding and peanut butter.
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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
Remember, no one can subsist only on popcorn, even during the warmer weeks.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2024
The film’s plenitude shows how people subsist alongside the irresistible rise of media fascism.
—Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024
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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
Remember, no one can subsist only on popcorn, even during the warmer weeks.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2024
The film’s plenitude shows how people subsist alongside the irresistible rise of media fascism.
—Armond White, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024
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But the whole idea of freezing a living specimen to be revived later absolutely is.Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2024
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The agency has 11 food distribution centers for 1 million people in Gaza, more than half of whom UNRWA assesses to live below the abject poverty line of US$ 1.74 per person per day.Nadeen Ebrahim and Salma Arafa, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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There is also more than a bit of repetition — scenes played in different settings, with different energies, props and clues, but making more or less the same point, even as the series lopes bit by bit toward a conclusion.Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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There is no clear evidence that genetics influence other forms of gastritis besides autoimmune gastritis.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 25 Oct. 2024
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Most of the courtroom shots exist simply because Graynor remembered to bring her camera that day.Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
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Some gerrymandering limits exist: The federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 prevents disenfranchising voters based on race, color or membership in a language minority group.Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024
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