live on
Idioms-
Be financially supported by, subsist on, as in His pension is too small to live on . [Mid-1600s]
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Continue to survive, especially unexpectedly, as in They thought the cancer would kill her, but Lucy lived on for another twenty years .
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Remain in human memory, as in This book will live on long after the author's death .
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“Basically, you’ve got to come to the conclusion that you have X dollars to live on and that you’re going to bequeath, so what is the amount you could live without?” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
Instead, they “came to see that distributing the land—for free—to ‘actual settlers’ who would live on and improve the land was the highest goal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Around 200 passengers who paid to live on a cruise ship while travelling the world were abruptly left in a Cambodian port after the company ran out of money, an official said on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Lawrie admits "there's going to be nerves there obviously" and "being live on Netflix at 15 years of age is just something else".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
And now some adults wanted to send Spares to live on the same island.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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