live through

Idioms

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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He also continued performing live through the 2010s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 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

I thought it would be so cool to live through a time of principles and protest, of country-changing upheaval.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Everything we do and live through informs our actions.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 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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live through

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