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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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But again, he doesn’t even mention why — that I can live through that and still work seven days a week.”

From Salon Apr. 16, 2026

"You live through that every day, if only I asked for a second opinion, the outcome could have been different."

From BBC Apr. 3, 2026

“You don’t want to live through this, per se,” she suggests about Fiona Apple’s anxieties, which the singer bares in “The Idler Wheel . . . ,” her self-lacerating 2012 album.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

"I don't believe it's possible to change the regime in the current situation. Any resistance from below will be crushed. I just hope we, simply physically, live through this."

From Barron's Feb. 22, 2026

His mother had been able to live through that by a long nursing of her son, some occasional visits to a graveyard.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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