live through
phrasal verb
lived through; living through; lives through
1
: to survive (an experience, a troubling time, etc.) : to endure
If I can live through this, I can live through anything.
2
US, sometimes disapproving
: to enjoy the experiences and achievements of (another person) instead of one's own experiences and achievements
She can't live through her daughter.
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Like with a lot of people who lived through Katrina, this 20-year anniversary looms a little larger than Hamel would like.
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Melanie Peeples, NPR, 26 Aug. 2025
During her victim impact statement, Jennifer Baird said she’s lived through hell the last five years.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
If your life was really, really long — if your life was 100,000 years — then that’s actually long enough to live through an ice age.
—Laura Poppick, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
What our wondrous, astonishingly destructive civilization ultimately means is not something to be decided by those who caused it or even those doomed to live through its end, but only by those who come after: the children of our ruin.
—Roy Scranton
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
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Melanie Peeples, NPR, 26 Aug. 2025
During her victim impact statement, Jennifer Baird said she’s lived through hell the last five years.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
If your life was really, really long — if your life was 100,000 years — then that’s actually long enough to live through an ice age.
—Laura Poppick, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
What our wondrous, astonishingly destructive civilization ultimately means is not something to be decided by those who caused it or even those doomed to live through its end, but only by those who come after: the children of our ruin.
—Roy Scranton
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for live through
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“Live through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/live%20through. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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