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existence

[ig-zis-tuhns] / ɪgˈzɪs təns /


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The blast came on the 11th pitch of the at-bat—fitting for a player whose entire existence in the major leagues is the result of unrelenting tenacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Reports have painted a picture of a decidedly low-key existence for the actor on the island, with Carrey spending his time reading, writing, walking, painting, and sketching.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Ohtani didn’t will a hot streak into existence then.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

How do Facebook, Instagram and all of Zuck’s other spawn remain integral parts of our lives until we die if users eventually get weary enough to figure out their existence is better off without them?

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

By 2006, not one had been spotted—nor was there any evidence of their existence.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

Still, Harper and Yasmin’s existences are inextricably linked, gnarled together in a helix of favors and bargains.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

From our contemporary vantage point, their minuscule existences have been erased, replaced by the modern-day footage’s bustle of traffic and clatter of the everyday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

Sold as the ultimate work-life balance, the firm's brain microchip procedure splits a person's consciousness and memory into dual existences.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025

We have given the keys to our once-private analog existences over to the wealthiest companies in human history.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2024

He experienced them, the others, incorporated the babble of their thoughts, heard in his own brain the noise of their many individual existences.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick


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