Usage examples for subsist
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Domestic cats often run away to the woods and subsist on their own hunting; but these are not to be taken for the real wild cat. – Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals by R. Lee
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He then expressed his concern at the difference which he found to subsist between the Secretary of the Treasury and myself, of which he said he had not been aware. – Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
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How beautiful, he said, to subsist on the sun and the dust. – Romance Island by Zona Gale