existed

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It’s as if those six years never existed!

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

By carefully arranging tiny particles of silver into custom-built structures, they created and stabilized a previously elusive state of matter that had existed only in theoretical models.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

At Galeries Lafayette on Tuesday, as employees packed away denuded mannequins, admissions officer Li said she thought the store had been too reliant on "the traditional... business model that has existed for decades in France".

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Meanwhile, modern Homo sapiens have existed for only 300,000 years, and what are the odds we make it even another millennium?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Watching them, I understood what I’d spent so much time trying to ignore: being alone was better than being with people who didn’t care if I existed.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows