- present tense form of exist (3rd person singular).
exists
Example Sentences
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One of the primary goals of astrobiology is determining whether life exists elsewhere in the universe.
From Science Daily • Jun. 30, 2026
The Fourth Amendment exists, she writes, to protect “the privacies of life” and to guard against “too permeating police surveillance.”
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2026
Grok comes from xAI, which SpaceX merged with in February. xAI no longer exists, with SpaceX dissolving the entity recently.
From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026
“The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist,” he said in his 1961 farewell speech, of the newly developed “permanent armaments industry of vast proportions.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026
A thing exists without words, but a fact is a statement, a term in a discourse.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
