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Present participle 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.”
Present participle 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) Present participle for to have as an essential feature
“The effect of genetic maldevelopment may subsist in chromosomal mutation.”
Present participle for to remain in existence or active
Present participle for to subsist on a particular type of food
Present participle for to eat or consume a meal, especially a shared meal
Having life
Living or still in existence
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