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exist

[ig-zist] / ɪgˈzɪst /




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She recalls a voter in West Bengal's Sundarbans telling her: "If we don't vote, no-one will even bother to remember that poor people exist."

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Language, metaphors, narratives, structures—all these exist to explain, rather than constrain, our desires.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Theoretical models had predicted that the molecule could exist in two equally likely structures.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

That sort of facility “doesn’t exist anywhere in the world,” he added.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Though “potential” infinities could exist in the minds of mathematicians—like the concept of dividing lines into infinite pieces—nobody could actually do it, so the infinite doesn’t exist in reality.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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