existential
Example Sentences
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But if feeling existentially threatened, Tehran could pressure the group to join the fray.
The idea is that, assuming these sectors haven’t seen any kind of existential threat to their normal business and demand climates, they should be able to surpass what looks like fairly conservative analyst estimates.
From Barron's
But it’s especially valuable in the business where the possibilities are infinite and the stakes feel existential.
Yet even though our two countries are inextricably bound together, and despite the existential nature of Canada’s reliance on the U.S. market, we have maneuvered ourselves into a self-defeating elbows-up mentality.
Some films cast the King of the Monsters as a protector unconsciously joining humanity – and occasionally, King Kong – to fend off some mammoth existential evil.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
