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existence

[ig-zis-tuhns] / ɪgˈzɪs təns /


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Like any group of people, the Somali immigrant community contains good and bad people in it, but on the whole, their very existence is a testament to human tenacity.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

We get more shivers from a glimpse of a very young Jay nervously calling his father “Sir” than we do from Brolin barking caricature-style that “There’s more to existence than fun!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

For three decades, Cliffe worked in obscurity, visiting hundreds of schools—from Harvard and Stanford to the University of Hawaii and Texas Tech—where he sparred with cynical students over the existence of God.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

His move toward a more private existence also coincided with the end of another major chapter in his real estate portfolio: his decadeslong ownership of an impressive Brentwood estate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Wet socks are up there on my list of things that should be banished from existence.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Still, Harper and Yasmin’s existences are inextricably linked, gnarled together in a helix of favors and bargains.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

Sold as the ultimate work-life balance, the firm's brain microchip procedure splits a person's consciousness and memory into dual existences.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025

We have given the keys to our once-private analog existences over to the wealthiest companies in human history.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2024

Which even the military ended because it called on gay people to deny or hide their existences.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024

He experienced them, the others, incorporated the babble of their thoughts, heard in his own brain the noise of their many individual existences.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick


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