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What is another word for muddling through?

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Verb
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Present participle for to succeed despite difficult circumstances
managing
surviving
getting along
getting by
scraping by
scraping along
making do
making it
scratching a living
coping
making out
muddling along
getting on
faring
doing
making ends meet
shifting
keeping the wolf from the door
enduring
carrying on
weathering the storm
fending
shifting for oneself
faring all right
bearing up
getting through
scarcely have enough to live oning
scraping a living
doing well enough
subsisting
barely have enough to live oning
dealing with the situation
rubbing along
hacking it
handling
succeeding
progressing
proceeding
going
doing all right
cutting it
weathering
improvising
scrimping
suffering
hacking
scraping through
grappling
handling it
living
dealing with
existing
eking out a living
paying your bills
making the best of a bad job
making shift
dealing with it
managing without help
managing without assistance
managing by oneself
taking care of oneself
holding out
soldiering on
grinning and bear it
withstanding
holding up
persevering
going off
coming along
panning out
turning out
going along
performing
tangling
confronting
tussling
struggling
dealing
looking after oneself
struggling through
facing
contending
keeping your head above water
battling
dispatching
making it out alive
coming through
getting a handle on
wrestling
paddling your own canoe
flourishing
prospering
scoring
doing with
achieving
thriving
getting by on
making the best of
making the most of
barely manage to living
getting by with
managing to live with difficulty
scarcely manage to living
scratching out a living
standing it
sticking it
putting up with it
bearing it
making a go of it
abiding it
tolerating it
enduring it
contending with
tholing it
staggering
muddling
cracking it
supporting oneself
remaining alive
staying alive
being
persisting
keeping body and soul together
hanging on
keeping going
lasting
eking out an existence
supporting yourself
hanging in there
coping with it
pulling through
acquiting yourself well
standing tall
holding your own
standing your ground
giving a good account of yourself
standing firm
continuing
depending
sticking with it
feeding
barely existing
relying for nourishment
hanging in
sustaining yourself
making the grade
hanging tough
sustaining
making both ends meet
riding out
sticking it out
breathing
dwelling
going on
continuing living
scrimping and saving
struggling along
consisting
maintaining oneself
profiting
acquiring a livelihood
making a living
earning money
earning one's living
sustaining oneself
feeding yourself
keeping alive
earning a living
prevailing
moving
remaining
having being
having life
drawing breath
walking the earth
“Governments typically muddle through rather than being masterfully on top of things.”
Verb
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Present participle for to conduct oneself in a particular way
doing
acting
behaving
comporting
performing
acquiting oneself
appearing
bearing
carrying
conducting
deporting
discoursing
enacting
operating
personating
playing
playacting
portraying oneself
seeming
bearing oneself
comporting yourself
conducting oneself
conducting yourself
deporting oneself
staggering along
coming on like
rendering the role
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