existential
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In his resignation speech to MPs, he said it represented an "existential threat" to the future of the UK.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
This rip-roaring AI-powered bull market has already overcome a handful of potentially existential challenges, from the 2023 collapse of Silicon Valley Bank to last year’s tariff tantrum.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
She called the proposed repeal of the gross receipts tax “an existential threat to the city budget and the services it supports,” including street repairs, public safety and efforts to clean the city.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
But many in publishing believe the decline in serious nonfiction is more existential.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
It was life reduced to a set of rules, an existential life, a life clarified by the eyes of fathers.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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