existence

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Apple’s pocket music player largely owed its existence to one fortuitous meeting Apple executives had with the maker of a tiny hard drive that didn’t seem to have any practical application.

From The Wall Street Journal

Prior research — notably a study entitled “Losing Sleep at the Market” — covered the period through 1997 and confirmed the existence of this daylight-saving anomaly.

From MarketWatch

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel has Dr. Frankenstein bicker with his creature about her potential existence before deciding against it in fear that “she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate.”

From Los Angeles Times

For decades, Pyongyang denied pursuit of a nuclear program until publicly admitting to its existence in 2002.

From The Wall Street Journal

I died and went to some other plane of existence, where I died again.

From Literature