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Then there are places such as Lancaster in northern Los Angeles County, where about 200 unhoused people are eking out an existence on a smoldering stretch of the Mojave Desert just outside city limits.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022

Twenty years later, the survivors are eking out a preindustrial life amid the ruins.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

There are many more players from those junior days who are eking out a living in pro golf, teaching lessons or selling insurance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2019

In some of the songs it’s clear the producers are eking out all they can from what recorded vocals Jackson left behind, stretching them with backup choirs, guests and cut-and-paste repetitions.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2010

Such suspicion has been nurtured and intensified through the very hard living most of them and many others in Japan are eking out.

From Time Magazine Archive