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Discover LudwigThe phrase "able to exist on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the capability of something to survive or function based on a particular condition or resource.
Example: "The species is able to exist on a diet that consists primarily of leaves."
Alternatives: "capable of surviving on" or "able to thrive on".
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Just don't kid yourself: There will come a day when each and every one of these workers will no longer be able to exist on this tightrope.
"Their populations will be so small and isolated, and they will have to be managed so carefully, that they will only be able to exist on land that is run like a zoo or a park.
The wisest line, in our view, is the one laid down by the Supreme Court 30 years ago in Roe v. Wade: Government should have the right to step in only when the fetus has developed fully enough to be able to exist on its own.
The first cited passage from Katz 1986 suggests that pleasure is immediately appreciated, or liked, in its experiential moment; the second that pleasure figures as a proper part of (full) desire (better: of some kind or kinds of desire or motivation) although it is also able to exist on its own, as in the stance views of §2.3.3 above.
To be clear, videos that fall into the categories above will be able to exist on YouTube — so long as they do not infringe the site's terms and conditions — but the YouTubers behind them simply won't be able to monetize them via the site's advertising platform.
"He would not be able to exist on that plateau of mediocrity.
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Some people seem to be able to exist for years on a work plateau.
Memory is deeply different from the past, in that it is coloured by the present, is alive and "darns" experiences, rewriting them to be able to exist and be able to carry on narrating.
In contrast, SSEs distribution (Wallace and Beavan [2010]; Wallace et al. [2012]; Wallace and Eberhart-Phillips [2013]) seems to be able to exist even where temperature on the plate interface is low.
I should be able to exist in spaces, and feel safe when carrying on with my regular routines!
Without them, we wouldn't be able to exist.
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