subsists

Definition of subsistsnext
present tense third-person singular of subsist
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Verb
  • But there is still interest in games not involving the best available teams.
    Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), there is no residency requirement to file a lawsuit challenging a project’s environmental review.
    James Ward, USA Today, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • But strip away the drama, and what you’re left with is a genuine repricing of where enterprise software value actually lives.
    Joel Hron, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • There's no health to monitor or lives to count, and very rarely any kind of fail state.
    Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • In the documentary, a man running the shelter, who identified himself as Charles Lubajja, tells the undercover reporters that the shelter exists primarily to make money from social media users abroad under false pretenses.
    Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
  • Her thesis is the personal finance advice most women are getting is built for an economy that no longer exists.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 May 2026
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“Subsists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subsists. Accessed 20 May. 2026.

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