existential
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Alphabet has spent the past year dismantling the narrative that AI would be an existential threat to its business, emerging as the standout AI leader among the “Magnificent Seven.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
“I was having a baby — I didn’t know what existential meant,” she remarks.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
"It is a difficult – borderline existential – balancing act for Spotify," says Robert Prey, who studies streaming platforms at Oxford University's Internet Institute.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
What is different now is that the regime faces an existential threat, endangering the militias as well.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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