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live through

Idioms  

  1. Endure, survive. This idiom is used both seriously, as in Those who have lived through a depression never forget what it was like, or hyperbolically, as in That speech was endless—I thought I'd never live through it.

Example Sentences

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I should try to remember that if I live through today.

From Literature

He said, up until now, he could live through a projected near double-digit decline in revenue, given the momentum of the launch of oral Wegovy as well as his belief that the guidance was conservative.

From MarketWatch

"I don't believe it's possible to change the regime in the current situation. Any resistance from below will be crushed. I just hope we, simply physically, live through this."

From Barron's

When you live through something—

From The Wall Street Journal

“It doesn’t work that way. There’s something else JB called the paradox of the doubles. No one can live through a particular time more than once. So, for example, there couldn’t have been two or three copies of JB, jumped in from two or three different times, waiting at the back of the cave to attack Gary. Or two or three copies of me, either.”

From Literature

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