existence
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I’ve rarely seen Elordi wearing his lanky, handsome screen presence comfortably; something about the actor usually seems to be apologizing for his own existence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
He doubts the existence of extraterrestrials but recognizes their prominence in our imagination as a chapter in “humanity’s evolving self-portrait.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The region's hardscrabble existence is perhaps best illustrated in Dollywood's full-size replica of the humble two-room log cabin where Parton grew up with her 11 brothers and sisters in Locust Ridge, outside Sevierville.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The possible existence of these three rulers raises broader questions about what the Assyrian King List was actually designed to do.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
In that time, Clare had not known a stitch of peace, as though the seam of his very existence were being torn in different directions.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The language you use to describe your pre- and post-transition existences is pretty frank and plain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
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
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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