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existential

adjective as in pertaining to existence

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Speakers framed the stakes of the ballot measure as nothing short of existential — not just for Democratic interests, but also for democracy.

“Even with such a seemingly irreproachable mission, this corporation has come under fire many times, facing it’s first existential threat a mere two years after its inception in 1969,” he said.

“This was an existential threat to the Sheriff’s Department, but it was of their own making because of what they did.”

Brown is sanguine about AI’s potential; he is not inclined to join the dystopian camp that regards it as an existential threat.

"The monastery's property is being seized and expropriated. This spiritual beacon of Orthodoxy and Hellenism is now facing an existential threat," he said in a statement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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