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Synonyms

live through

Idioms  

  1. Endure, survive. This idiom is used both seriously, as in Those who have lived through a depression never forget what it was like, or hyperbolically, as in That speech was endless—I thought I'd never live through it.

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Each day we live through this era, we get vastly dumber.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

"Before, I watched it on the television and thought 'My God! Those poor people!'. And now it's my turn to live through it," she added.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Through truth we live, through knowledge we survive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

"I think what I find the hardest is not what I went through, it's what everyone else had to go through and knowing that my wife had to live through that," he said.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Like how plants can live through winter in the frozen ground and still bloom again in spring.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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