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Earns with difficulty, with "out"
Answer for the clue "Earns with difficulty, with "out" ", 4 letters:
ekes
Alternative clues for the word ekes
- __ out a living: barely manages
- Barely gets by (with "out")
- Augments, with 'out'
- Makes (out), but by just a smidge
- ___ out a living (barely manages to survive)
- ___ out a living (barely scrapes by)
- __ out a victory (wins barely)
- Achieves with effort (with "out")
- Just manages, ... out a living
- Somehow manages, with "out"
Usage examples of ekes.
He was a writer of the sort that barely ekes out a living, these days at least, by selling blood and doing novelizations of television series.
He ekes out a living as a witch, because he refuses to let his grandson support him.
Sumeru -- the center of the universe -- and Harney Peak, also the center of the universe, oddly enough -- both some six hundred klicks southeast of the four San Francisco Peaks where the Hopi-Eskimo culture there ekes out a living on the cold ridges and fern clefts, also certain that their peaks bound the center of the universe.