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existence

[ig-zis-tuhns] / ɪgˈzɪs təns /


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Another is the existence of relatively new statutes that support growing schools of the Atlantic menhaden, an oily fish with a variety of industrial uses like commercial bait and omega-3 supplements.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

Regardless of any rebranding this season, there remains a deep divide within cricket over the very existence of The Hundred.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

A quietly captivating Willem Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, a New York post office veteran of 37 years in a seemingly satisfying if decidedly low-key existence.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Even so, combining CT data from several specimens, including the only two complete skulls in existence, allows scientists to move beyond centuries of speculation and make more evidence-based interpretations of the bird's biology.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Was this all a trap to trick me into admitting the existence of a group, into naming names?

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Sold as the ultimate work-life balance, the firm's brain microchip procedure splits a person's consciousness and memory into dual existences.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2025

We have given the keys to our once-private analog existences over to the wealthiest companies in human history.

From Slate Sep. 22, 2024

Locals and tourists often lead separate but parallel existences, more or less ignoring one another’s presence.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2024

Which even the military ended because it called on gay people to deny or hide their existences.

From Seattle Times May 8, 2024

He experienced them, the others, incorporated the babble of their thoughts, heard in his own brain the noise of their many individual existences.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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