existence
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“The thing that I got right, that I loved for the longest time and now has almost become the bane of my existence, is creating relatable comics,” he told us.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
"I put dots all over my body and make all the surroundings dot patterns. By creating the same thing over and over, my own existence is buried in the art."
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“There’s a person who was fundamental to the very existence of this group,” he adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
For most of human existence, we have lived in the shadow of starvation: Our bodies evolved to stockpile energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
He didn’t know why and never found out; instead, Charlie bought two rail cars’ worth of ethanol futures, and made headlines in Ethanol Today, a magazine of whose existence he was previously unaware.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Sold as the ultimate work-life balance, the firm's brain microchip procedure splits a person's consciousness and memory into dual existences.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
We have given the keys to our once-private analog existences over to the wealthiest companies in human history.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2024
Which even the military ended because it called on gay people to deny or hide their existences.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
Like, say, making portals to different existences materialize from nothing or cranking out identical slices of key lime pie for no fathomable reason.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2023
He experienced them, the others, incorporated the babble of their thoughts, heard in his own brain the noise of their many individual existences.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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