existential
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The question of how to train a young worker is existential for many companies using AI to redesign how work gets done.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Following the diplomatic back-and-forth about a potentially existential subject could tire anyone out, so spend the rest of your night doing something else!
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
"It's an existential challenge for London," says Bassam Mahfouz, chairman of the London Assembly's Economy, Culture and Skills Committee.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
This should be a lesson to us in a time that treats the shifting categories of identity as though they are existential and unalterable.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
He maintained, for example, at one time that all existential propositions are meaningless.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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