nonexistence

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The SEC declined to respond, with a spokesperson saying the agency doesn’t “comment on the existence or nonexistence of a possible investigation.”

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Its nonexistence is, ironically, the main thing to emerge so far from the document dump.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

It claims that these men are terrorists by virtue of their alleged membership in the Tren de Aragua gang—but evidence of this affiliation is weak to the point of nonexistence.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2025

Since this plan cannot unfold without us, our nonexistence — to true believers — would have been inconceivable.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023

The protests of the workers this time were based on the lack of sanitary facilities in their living quarters, the nonexistence of medical services, and terrible working conditions.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez