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live through
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
We all have to live through a dark season now and then, Rhys comforts himself.
“And so these kind of responses are someone trying to keep them safe, because we’re all human, and you can’t live through something so terrible without doing things that protect yourself.”
But Energy Transfer cited that courtroom victory in its response to the nonprofit’s report: “The recent verdict against Greenpeace was also a win for the people of North Dakota who had to live through the daily harassment and disruptions caused by the protesters who were funded and trained by Greenpeace.”
And he’s 50 years old, so he grew up with those ’90s action movies and, at the end, he gets to live through one.
Margaret said she recognizes that moving out of the country requires a huge amount of privilege and flexibility that most other Americans don't have, and that those "on the pointiest end of the stick" have no choice but to live through it.
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