existed

Example Sentences

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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

Marie adds: "We just didn't know it existed, because we can't understand how you can have such a healthy 20-year-old boy there and then not."

From BBC • May 22, 2026

No relevant precedent existed, and given the unique crimes the Nazi hierarchy had committed, it would require ex post facto laws to prosecute them.

From Salon • May 18, 2026

You possibly could profit from the correlations between different periods’ gains and losses — if you were the only one who knew they existed.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

“I now realized there was an entire industry, called consumer finance, that basically existed to rip people off.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis