existential
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With AI posing an existential threat to traditional consulting, firms are looking to switch to fixed or outcomes-based pricing to stay in the game—but both have drawbacks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026
Students like Wang sporadically sign up for competitions, but a lack of funding and exposure means few adopt it as a full-time career, leaving it facing an existential struggle.
From Barron's • Jun. 28, 2026
Billed as "Everywhere At Once", the festival has been organised by the Music Venue Trust, which hopes it will highlight the value of small, local venues at a time of existential threat.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
Shares of Salesforce deepened their record losing streak on Monday as the company continues to grapple with what investors see as an existential risk to its business posed by artificial intelligence.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026
McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing existential
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