existential
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It all prompted a kind of deeply existential question: If this is how we now treat a onetime pandemic hero, what will happen the next time we face a similar public health crisis?
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
The four-time champion has been facing existential questions this year about his future in Formula 1.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Behind the curtain: the new existential threat to AI.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Meanwhile Egypt has been at loggerheads with Ethiopia since the construction of a massive dam on the Nile, which Cairo views as an "existential threat".
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
She also plays with to be, the quintessential^ existential verb, to engage our existential puzzlement: Would I then be someone else or would I just no longer be?...
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing existential
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "E"
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
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