existed

Example Sentences

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It’s worth saying that TPS has existed since the ’90s and does not give you a path to citizenship.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026

Among my favorites: seeing them delight in yellow school buses, which they thought only existed in movies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

Engineers have warned that a major vulnerability for California is concrete buildings built to codes that existed in the 1970s or before and that haven’t been retrofitted and are capable of collapsing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

Plagues have existed throughout history, said Heeney, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages ages to the 1918-20 influenza pandemic which killed an estimated 25-50 million globally.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

Whatever window of opportunity had existed to complete the one glaring piece of unfinished business in the revolutionary era was now closed.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis