existential
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Bevacqua’s comments point to the crucial, existential questions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
This second half of the term, there has been a pumping of the brakes on deciding big, existential questions over the shadow docket.
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026
Wu told AFP that the development, long awaited in the industry, represents an "existential threat" to current laptop chip designs, with Intel and AMD "the immediate casualties".
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Forum moderators say there's something "deeply existential" about the concept and that it's less about monsters and "more from the uncertainty of what else might already exist in the space with you".
From BBC • May 29, 2026
“Quite an existential dilemma that parrot has put us all in,” Mom says, smiling at him.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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