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Victoria Kent, 28, who pulled up with her 8-year-old daughter in the back seat, had subsisted on juice boxes over the last two days.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2022

In Sonora, Jesuit missionaries encouraged Indigenous tribes, who had subsisted mostly on beans, corn and squash, to raise them.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2021

By the time the pipeline was fully restored, some households had subsisted on nothing but small jerrycans for almost an entire month.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2020

Shaffer never again returned to the island, but "she was totally romantic about it," said her niece, constantly recounting tales to her family of how the islanders had subsisted on so little.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2018

Robert started to reassure her, asserting that he had known a lady who had subsisted upon nougat during the entire—but seeing the color mount into Mrs. Pontellier’s face he checked himself and changed the subject.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin