existential

Example Sentences

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For Iran, long fearful of an American attack, the struggle is an existential one that it has spent decades preparing for.

From The Wall Street Journal

Military expert Hassan Jouni said that for Hezbollah "this is an existential battle... so it will fight until the last breath".

From Barron's

If it sounds existential, it is because it is.

From BBC

The BBC's own review noted that there was a disconnect between the "muscular" songs and the "existential crisis" of Styles' lyrics, concluding: "As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty."

From BBC

It was the boy’s first experience of death, a difficult concept for a young mind but an important precursor for a boy not given the luxury of existential innocence.

From Los Angeles Times