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eke out

verb

to make (a supply) last, esp by frugal use
they eked out what little food was left
to support (existence) with difficulty and effort
to add to (something insufficient), esp with effort
to eke out an income with evening work

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Both candidates now are trying to "bring their enemies to the battlefield" to eke out an advantage, he added.

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By the end of Lynch’s run Magellan was a behemoth struggling to eke out “a razor thin margin of victory,” as investment commentator William Bernstein put it.

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Then, Ukraine just about managed to eke out its existing stocks of ammunition with the help of Europe.

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In 2021, at the end of another hectic afternoon, Ireland needed Sexton's nerveless late penalty to eke out a 27-24 victory.

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Tigers, known to attack humans, roam dangerously close to and enter crowded villages where the poor eke out a living, often squatting on land.

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