existential
Example Sentences
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No, the opposition toward the candidate is viciously intense, shockingly manifold, and wide-ranging to the point of sounding almost existential.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
My job is to analyze the existential threats you're all so busy creating and ignoring.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
That makes it less vulnerable to disruption than, say, an enterprise software provider facing an existential threat from tools such as Anthropic’s Claude.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
It’s an added shading, an honest commentary, that feels right, as if it were there all along in the DNA of this well-traveled tale of existential concern, just waiting to be uncovered.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
It was life reduced to a set of rules, an existential life, a life clarified by the eyes of fathers.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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