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Past tense for to maintain or support oneself, especially at a minimal level
“Attaining such enhancements will surely require serious increases in funding to Inuit broadcast organizations, most of which presently subsist on bare bones budgets.”
Past tense for to remain in force or effect
“The business, as a trading enterprise, continued to subsist as an identifiable item of property.”
(consist in, rare) Past tense for to have as an essential feature
“The effect of genetic maldevelopment may subsist in chromosomal mutation.”
Past tense for to remain in existence or active
Past tense for to subsist on a particular type of food
Past tense for to eat or consume a meal, especially a shared meal
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