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It turns out that the players being labeled as amateurs and treated like normal students who are subsisting on ramen noodles were not the reason folks tuned in on Saturdays.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2023

The rally sent the S&P 500 up more than 1 percent, underscoring just how much financial markets are subsisting on hopes and fears about the trade war.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2019

Food supplies used to enter the city from the west, but since Iraqi forces surrounded it, residents are subsisting on meager rations of vegetables and a small quantity of flour distributed by the militants.

From Reuters • Dec. 9, 2015

With the large-scale food distribution winding down, many families are subsisting on rice bought from street vendors.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2010

In consequence of the sudden approach of fall and the renewed stringency of the blockade, there are no strawberries to be had, and the First Families are subsisting entirely upon persimmons.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)