existential
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The research comes as AI bosses have warned their technology could pose existential risks for humanity while also promising safeguards embedded in their chatbots.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Meanwhile, the existential crisis is deepening in the movements focused on the risks of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
C.K. riffs at length about the bags under his eyes, the existential terror of waking up and the absurdity of putting his father in a retirement home.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
Worse than the existential NFL question of whether it is or is not a catch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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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