existed

Example Sentences

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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

As a witness to the New York Mets’ abysmal inaugural season, Casey Stengel once remarked: “Been in this game one hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

She hoped Mom didn’t see her as someone who existed just to make Chicken happy.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn