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ontological

[on-tl-oj-i-kuhl] / ˌɒn tlˈɒdʒ ɪ kəl /
ADJECTIVE
pertaining to the nature of existence
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Writing for the majority, Justice Kavanaugh painstakingly selects his words to avoid the ontological question, as if touching it might break something fragile.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

With spacetime, it's applied uncritically to a mathematical description of happenings -- turning a model into an ontological theory on the nature of being.

From Science Daily Nov. 2, 2025

Whatever Ramona wanted in the car, she’s experiencing ontological buyer’s remorse in the now.

From Salon Mar. 31, 2025

I think that’s important, as an ontological model of cinema.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2024

It is in relation to the speculative, not the practical, intellect, that things have ontological truth.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey



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