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existential

[eg-zi-sten-shuhl, ek-si-] / ˌɛg zɪˈstɛn ʃəl, ˌɛk sɪ- /


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Some companies, like Writer, use internal token consumption leaderboards to drive AI adoption, viewing it as existential.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

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

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

Many experience an existential angst associated with their permanent social exclusion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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