presence
Example Sentences
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Your faces come to me in my dreams, and when I wake, and I realize that your presence was only a dream, my heart breaks all over again.
From Literature
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"We are reinforcing our defensive presence in the eastern Mediterranean," the MoD told the BBC.
From BBC
Or one could argue the opposite: The presence of a unifying caliph might have, as it had for centuries, moderated the expansion of marginal extremist movements such as Wahhabism or, in our time, Islamic State.
The force said it would also be maintaining a "strong and visible presence around schools where appropriate".
From BBC
When a noise “so loud that it was almost a physical presence” claps over the house, the group realizes it’s a confirmation of their collective fears.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.