"___ live and breathe!” (3)

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exist

'live and breathe' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for exist that I've seen before include "Have being or continue living" , "Subsist" , "Get a life!" , "Have objective reality" , "Scrape by" .)

I've seen this clue in the Newsday and The New York Times.

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