ontological
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Writing for the majority, Justice Kavanaugh painstakingly selects his words to avoid the ontological question, as if touching it might break something fragile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But the ontological distinction was lost at the start: events don't exist, they happen.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
How much ontological truth were we capable of?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025
Whatever Ramona wanted in the car, she’s experiencing ontological buyer’s remorse in the now.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
We are concerned here only with the truth that is attributed to reality, to things themselves: ontological, metaphysical, transcendental truth, as it is called.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
Vocabulary lists containing ontological
The Fault in Our Stars
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