existential
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It all prompted a kind of deeply existential question: If this is how we now treat a onetime pandemic hero, what will happen the next time we face a similar public health crisis?
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
The four-time champion has been facing existential questions this year about his future in Formula 1.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“The fire issue is an existential crisis for California.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Behind the curtain: the new existential threat to AI.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Many experience an existential angst associated with their permanent social exclusion.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing existential
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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